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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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A quick question.
While I was manually making the changes, I found that some of the lines which I should removed has been updated. For example, at pagenav template: Change this: Quote:
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Hello raymondblog,
you are correct, the current replace-rules are not defined for vBulletin 4.1.10. To gain the speedup using sprites you need to change the following part of the current original code: Replace Code:
<img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_pagination}/last-{vb:stylevar right}.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase last}" /> Code:
<span class="pagination_last" title="{vb:rawphrase last}"> Since vBulletin 4.1.10 is currently not available on vbulletin-germany.com, it will took at least 1-2 weeks until Mooff or me will upload the current version here, based on the assumption, that vBulletin 4.1.10 will be available within this week on the offi. german vBulletin site. Best regards Osbes |
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Thanks for the prompt response.
I actually found out that there were a few more that has been updated and require to manually update the code. At least I understand the logic of this mod. Love this mod, but hate TMS :P I've actually installed this mod before but then removed because TMS was a little too confusing. So I thought I should do it manually this time. |
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Hi,
I am interested in this Mod, but wanted to clear this question fist: Can I Install it without installing TMS. If yes What changes in which template must I do? (I am Using VB 4.1.9 ) In downloaded folder "do_not_upload" I read Template changes file. The changes in that file were till Mod Version 0.7.1 . The latest MOD is 0.7.2. Thanks in advance Mfg, Hearsglad |
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Hello heartsglad,
first of all, if you currently doesnt use this addon, i would advise you to wait for our next version, assuming that you will updat yout forum to vB 4.1.10, since we requested a hook, which is implemented in vB 4.1.10 and gives us the possibility to automatically change the template without any manual changes or TMS needed. If you dont want to wait and dont want to use the TMS, you need to make all the template changes that are listet in the "TEMPLATE_CHANGES" file in the "do_not_upload" folder. There are no changes for 0.7.2 since this version doenst introduces new changes but fixed some bugs. So since you need to revert every of this changes for using the next version with its automatically changes, i advise you to wait until than. we are currently testing it in our live forum (see my last post), but we need to wait until vbulletin-germany.com releases vB 4.1.10 to make the last tests and upload it here. Best regards Sebastian |
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I've tried my best to replace the ones that are not exactly the same as in the diff file but near identical. However the ones below are not found at all. Any help would be much appreciated.
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I am currently quite busy, therefor i can only give you a rather short answer for a problem that i sees immediately.
Template: forumhome_subforumbit_nopost and Template: forumhome_subforumbit_post got merged by vBulletin to Template: forumhome_subforums ### Template: memberaction_dropdown Seems to be in vBulletin 4.1.9 an i also found the icons (since i replaced them yesterday by our sprite). Dunno if they are missing in vBulletin 4.1.10 o are moved like the template forumhome_subforums, since - as you know - vB 4.1.10 is still not availible in vb-germany.com Best regards Sebastian |
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I just checked memberaction_dropdown and I believe the code to call the images are still there. However it is heavily modified and uses "class" to call the images.
Thanks, you guys deserves a donation from me. Let me try to get this sorted out first. Great job! |
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My forum @ http://www.raymond.cc/forum/
An update on the manual changes. Some of them are not found because I manually removed the code because I found them unnecessary to load. Now the only thing left is these codes which I couldn't figure it out how to make it work on my forum that is using a custom skin. Quote:
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i am interested in this Mod, but i have installed vb4.1.10 and wait for the new version for this Mod. You can find out when it happens? Thanks Alessandro |
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