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United-Forum CSS Sprites - ludicrous speed - NOW!
Developer Last Online: Feb 2013
tl;dr Makes your forum faster.
Want an easy one-click installation for this addon? . Vote for this jira-entry Add on currently is in beta stage When visiting a website, speed is a very important factor not only for users but crawlers as well. Long loading times are a nuisance since your time is basically wasted during the waiting period. Hence, we are trying everything we can in order to speed up our site. One great way to improve loading times is by the use of css sprites. Unfortunately these are not implemented by vBulletin. We therefore decided to develop our own css-sprite add on for vBulletin boards and want to share this code with the worldwide vBulletin community. Live demo The add on is permanently running in our vBulletin board ( > 2.000.000 posts), take a look:vBulletin performance using css sprites Our tests are based on version 0.7.0. We used the analytic tools firebug network utility and the googlelabs.com page speed sitecss sprites - what are they? The intention behind css sprites is the bundling of many small graphics into one large graphic in order to decrease the number of required http requests. This shortens the loading times of the given website. In addition, the the accumulated size of all small graphics is higher than the size of the sprite due to reasons of compression.What is the gain in using css sprites? Aside from the technical implementation, the question on how much one actually does gain by using css sprites is of the most interest. Obviously they decrease loading times - but how important are small loading times and what is the impact on vBulletin overall loading times?Add on features In the current released beta version 0.7.2, sprites are available for FORUMHOME and FORUMDISPLAY. Coming up next SHOWTHREAD.Installation First of all, if you didnt want to change the templates manually, install the Template Modification System (TMS). Now proceed with the installation:
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Running version 0.7.2 on vBulletin 4.1.3pl1 .... Anything I can do to address it? Thanks for the mod ... :up: Regards, Doug |
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Hi NgocTam,
this isnt a problem, as long as the main-sprite is created. Since 0.6.3 it is possible to add icons to specific sprites (main, forumdisplay, forumhome, showthread). I have introduced it, to gain a better ratio between the icons that are added in a sprite and the icons that are used on a page. Currently, this isnt used and wont be used in 0.8.0. Maybe in 0.9.0. Best regards Sebastian |
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Hello BadgerDog,
i dont want to be rude by answering with a quote, but i have answered this problem a lot and this quote has all the information and solution Quote:
Best regards Sebastian |
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TMS is available in 3.8.x
how to for 4.1.5 ? |
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Hello sivaganeshk,
Andreas has uploaded TMS 1.2.0 Beta 2 on vBulletin-Germany.org, but it seems that TMS 1.1.5 is also working with vBulletin 4. Please ask questions regarding the TMS in the corresponding thread Best regards Sebastian |
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Hello
Sorry for my English 0.7.2 installed and running but have this problem anyway, great job, thanks |
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Found a bug in Visitor Message pagination arrow:
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@tarzan22
sorry for the late reply - we will update the faq regarding this question once we find the time. And sorry if i keep myself short, but since that has been asked numerous times already in this thread i think a short answer will suffice: Despite covering hundreds of icons our addon can't cover everything. Especially gradients can't be automatically replaced since they differ a lot in custom styles. But, we do offer a hook so you can add your own icons into the sprite, based on the needs your board has. A how to can be found somewhere in this thread. @DNCL please read the FAQ in post two. This 'bug' isn't caused by the addon but by a very old GD version which besides this 'signature' also contains a security risk, which was fixed 4 years ago. |
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Hello DNCL,
thanks for the information. Beside the GD-Problem, there is a small bug with the position of this field, it shouldn't be so low. It caused by an overlap with an original vb css-rule. I will fix this in 0.8.0. Best regards Sebastian |
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I contacted our Unix tech support group ... Here's their response ... Quote:
By the way, sent you a PayPal donation to say thank you for your efforts on this excellent mod ... :up: Regards, Doug |
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