[Phpmyadmin-devel] Animations in routines functionality

[Piotr Przybylski]

2011/6/17 Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com>:
> 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
>

Looks much better to me. I am a bit concerned about content reflows
during size change, but there shouldn't be much content there to cause
performance problems.

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Piotr Przybylski