I think this is wrong. What if I get into a page, while a have a lot of programs running on my fast computer... I get a cookie that says "you're slow", so I get to see mediocre animations for good (until the cookie is cleaned) just because I had some overhead once.
I think we could make a plugin that overwrites the animation system, making it lite. Then if a dev is interested, the page can provide a link that reads "low quality version" or something like that. This does set a cookie and loads the plugin for successive page loads. The "lite" version of animation could simply make any animation synchronous (instantaneous). Actually... now that I say this. We could have a boolean flag like : $.fx.sync = true; That makes all future animations have 0 speed AND we make 0 speed anims sync. This is simple, totally doable. The dev is in charge of setting that flag when desired. Cheers -- Ariel Flesler http://flesler.blogspot.com/ On Oct 8, 3:42 am, "markus.staab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
