i think this would be a nice approach.. the result of this "benchmark"
could be stored in a cookie and wouldn't have a big impact on every
pageload....

On 7 Okt., 22:56, "Jörn Zaefferer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Maybe run an invisble but expensive animation and check how many steps
> are actually rendered, eg. animate an element for 100px for 100ms and
> check how often the step-callback is actually called for that
> animation. Anything below a certain threshold is considered too slow.
>
> Jörn
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:07 PM, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > How would you detect if someone is on a slower machine? (Just curious)
>
> > But yes, it was discussed recently that passing in an animation speed
> > of 0 might have that effect. Another good side effect is that
> > animations can be disabled for accessibility reasons (e.g. people who
> > have extreme motion sickness).
>
> > --John
>
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Florin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Animations and special effects (like fadeIn/fadeOut) are very nice,
> >> but on slower computers they don't look so good and are a serious
> >> performance issue.
>
> >> Would you consider an option to disable the animations?
>
> >> For instance, any call to animate() would just set the corresponding
> >> final CSS and call the callback, without animating through the
> >> intermediate steps ?
>
> >> Any workarounds which don't require changing the code a lot ?
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