Okay, I'll make this simple and sweet. I have a slow computer, as I'm sure a lot of other users do. It is, to put it lightly, a pain in the butt to wait for shops and showrooms with a huge picture or background to load. And even when it's finished, I sometimes STILL have issues scrolling down smoothly.

While I think everyone has the right to clutter decorate their pages in any manner they wish, it's a bit annoying for people who don't want to wait twice as long as they should have to to buy an item or browse through a page of pets. ;)
To keep both sides happy, I'm proposing a option under the "Layout Settings" page that allows you to turn user HTML off and on.

I always feel that it's necessary to say this after my suggestions, since I am not the most observant person in the world...if something similar to this already exists or is in the process of being implemented, my apologies!

I support, because I know this could help a lot of people if it's implemented.

However for me personally, since my computer isn't that slow, it's simply because i hate scrolling all the way down to the bottom of a shop/showroom and then, after the page finishes loading completely, it shoots me back up to the top -.- it just gets irritating. so yes, Support :)

I completely agree with this idea. I myself have the same problem; a slow internet that take years to load users profiles, especially when they have large pictures, many text boxes, animations or the worst of all thing... the dreaded millions of adoptables running in a line straight down the middle of the page. =/ And you have to wait until each one's picture/animation loads before you can even get down to see the persons pets, let alone the info box to get to their showroom, rancher shop or gallery. (I find the info boxs takes even that little bit longer to appear)

And sometimes I might really be interested in seeing this persons pets/items/whatever they have for sale, but I cannot stand waiting for their useless crap to load. So in the end we both loose out; they loose my buiseness and I loose the chance to see what they are selling. (Same goes for waiting for heavily customised showrooms or shops to load)

I have always relised that this is a problem, yet knew not what any sort of solution could be that could please all parties, as in people getting to keep their pretty profiles and me finally getting to their darn shop.This soultion means that everyone can win. :)

Basically that is my long winded whining way of saying that I support.

Oh yes. This is a good suggestion.

But. While there are extreme HTML abusers, (such as the people will put 40 pictures of their fursona/squibies/sombody else's art or photography crudely decorated down their profile) there are many who put a great deal of effort into coding their profiles and making them stand out from the crowd. It would be a shame to see some of these HTML masterpieces go to waste. 

So I guess I'm on the fence with this one.

I'm with you on that one Lolbot. :c I spent a nice chunk of time on my profile and showroom.

But I do think this is a very good suggestion, especially for showrooms. I sometimes have terrible times with showrooms.