i'm sorry but if you program an animation that is capable of crashing a browser then you're doing it wrong.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Jörn Zaefferer < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
