[Phpmyadmin-devel] Animations in routines functionality

[Piotr Przybylski]

2011/6/16 Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com>:
> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 21:05 +0200, Piotr Przybylski wrote:
>> 2011/6/16 Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com>:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I've added some animations to the routines functionalities in my branch
>> > and I'm just looking for your opinions about this. A demo video is
>> > available on my site [1]. Please let me know if you think that it's too
>> > much eye-candy or if you think that it's OK. I didn't check this into my
>> > repo yet and I'm keeping the code in my git-stash.
>>
>> Personally, I don't like the table jumping up and down. Moving objects
>> attract attention, especially if a large part of the screen moves, and
>> in this case it looks like an effect done because it can be done.
>> Space above Routines table should expand / contract to proper height
>> in one move - it it needs two, then the effect stops looking nice, it
>> becomes annoying.
>>
>> If it can't be done, it would look nice with old content replaced by
>> new with 0 opacity and using fade in to show it.
>>
>> (Note - I can be prejudiced, I hate collapsible options in PMA because
>> the animation used there is just wrong imo)
>>
> Well, I added in the animations because without them the content on the
> page just flashes and I find that really disturbing, not just because I
> could (you can see this functionalities without the animations on my
> demo server). But yeah, you have a good idea there about making the
> content slide once from the source size to the target size with alpha
> blending to complement the transition, I'll look into, but it doesn't
> sound simple to implement and it will probably be CPU intensive.

One effect or the other, two at one will surely be too slow. I think
alpha alone would be the simplest to implement, as you just have to
replace contents and run the animation.

>
> And I was suggesting the configuration option to disable animations
> especially for people that are annoyed by them and also for people with
> old computers :)

Sounds reasonable. I think this could be implemented by setting
jQuery.fx.off to true.

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Piotr Przybylski