Its so frickin easy to kill your browser with JavaScript, no matter how fast your machine is. Its not hard to imagine how an animation kills a "normal" machine.
Jörn On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Thiago Cruz Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > its clearly a hardware flaw if you're having problems with your internet > navigation buddy > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
