Actually it has been my experience that the animate method in jQuery
is much smoother and less bulkier than said Prototype/Scriptaculous.
Do you have some example links that has both the old example using
Prototype/Scriptaculous and then the new with jQuery? Firefox on both
Mac and PC will run the animations slower than Safari and IE. I don't
know the exact reasons but I assume it is because Safari and IE have
more system level access to run the JS.
Anyways, the example links would help out in getting someone to help
with the animate issue.
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Brandon Aaron
On 9/20/06, herchenx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I replied to a thread previously and brought up this issue, but I think it
> merits its own thread. I can't find anyone else commenting on this issue in
> the forums or elsewhere.
>
> Here is my scenario:
>
> 4 absolutely positioned div tags that animate simultaneously to a new fixed
> position on page load.
>
> In Firefox, using jQuery's animate() functionality, they are very choppy. In
> IE, they are as smooth as butter.
>
> Here is how I am doing this:
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $("div#wrapper div.animated").animate({left:0,top:0},1000);
> });
>
> This is as specific as I can be for referencing the 4 divs. I've tried the
> slideUp() functionality with identical results - IE is smooth, Firefox is
> terribly choppy.
>
> One div animating is smooth, 2 is still smooth, 3 starts to hiccup a little,
> and by the fourth it is nearly worthless. I've tried accessing the div's
> individually by ID rather than the class (as above), and the result is the
> same.
>
> To put salt in the wound, I was attemting to move away from Prototype.js -
> which I had working perfectly in all major browsers.
>
> My guess is that the jQuery objects are somehow bulkier than straight DOM
> elements and this animate() functionality simply costs too much for FF.
>
> I wonder if anyone else has dealt with this and if there were any positive
> results.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John Daharsh
> http://www.daharsh.net
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