Right, I'll buy a new PC so I can fully enjoy jQuery animations... So out of place....
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Thiago Cruz Santos < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > imo there is no need to disable animation due to performance issues, i mean > a browser its a program just like any other, if your photoshop is running > slow why would you care about running a "low-res" version of it? you would > just upgrade your pc or use fireworks or something. > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> 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 ? >> >> > > > > -- Ariel Flesler http://flesler.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
