[Phpmyadmin-devel] Animations in routines functionality

[Rouslan Placella]

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 22:47 +0200, Piotr Przybylski wrote:
> 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.
> 

I've improved the animation to only slide once during the replacement of
the content and uploaded a new demo video [1].

Please let me know what you think.

[1]: http://www.placella.com/pma/improved_routine_animations.ogv