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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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#132
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Hello Crotan,
if you use TMS, this is it. If you doenst use TMS add a 329 Lines Diff-File with Template-Changes to your workload. :/ Best regards Sebastian |
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Does deactivating TMS revert all template changes? I don't know never tested that.
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However for some of the images it spits out an error with the wrong file path, for instance: Code:
122 icon candidates added. ...../forums/forums/images/icons/icon1.png does not exist or is not readable. ...../forums/forums/images/icons/icon2.png does not exist or is not readable. |
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hmm on that note, this latest 0.7.0a version has removed the statusicons from search.php results list
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#136
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I had to uninstall it & go back to my old skin. This is how it's acting up now...
http://vgchat.info/forum/?styleid=16 |
#137
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Hi Crotan,
how does ist the Path for icon1.png in the AdminCP defined? Jeah, we forget the search.php and will resolve this problem within the next day (maybe tonight, but it is 20:20 in Germany) Best regards Sebastian |
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/forums/images/icons/icon1.png Seems the mod is expecting /images/icons/XXXXX.png The latest version also removed the magnification glass for the search on the navbar. |
#139
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Thanks, i will look for a way to solve this in the next version
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.globalsearch .searchbutton { background: url("images/Seamus/gradients/back3.png") repeat-x scroll left top transparent; border: 1px solid #1B518F !important; border-radius: 7px 7px 7px 7px; box-shadow: 0 0 2px #1A1A1A; margin-left: -5px; margin-top: -2px; } If you remove this, you will see the sprite. To didnt lose your styling, you could change the http://flotgaming.net/forums/images/buttons/search.png icon accordingly and refresh the sprite |
#140
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the magnification glass for the search is there for me, no need for fix in my case.
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#141
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Idem for me
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