Speaking of innocent whistles, why are you back at the old mega-sized avatar, Shinra? And as a strictly personal opinion, I liked the white one better, blended in better with the page colors.
Seph: I can't help but remember the old standards (which I deactivated). Not only did they set 60x60 as a maximum size, they also have a 6kB file size limit. I'm not bashing you for this or anything, but IMO there was no reason to make your new avatar so much bigger than the old one. You could easily keep that avatar at 96x64 and people would still see the motif just as clearly. Why the need to stretch the boundaries of netiquette?
As for the NS6 issue, I know it looks good there, and with only the masamune tip on the right the width of the avatar doesn't feel that intrusive. But it's much more obvious and has a
christ-that's-big feel to it in other browsers. I'm not going to force you to change the image type (unless others complain), but the size is big, no getting around it. Just because I say it's okay for now to use larger avatars, you don't have to push it to the limits.
No hard feelings for this, I hope? Anyone? I'd like to hear more opinions on the matter, I prefer not to be portrayed as the evil dictator of the board