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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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archet1337, baktabul, doctorsexy, Fuhrmann, Gnoll, iask, Juggernaut, Kolbi, mathforum, misericorde, neil00027, rodriiverduguez, Skaut, smsma.net, SWSUSA, xorex, yilmaz |
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#162
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This is a brilliant mod! Thanks for sharing. Working great on 4.1.5
Not that it matters much and is a quick fix, but you forgot to translate the phrase $vbphrase[sprite_navgroup_configuration] to english Also, the attachment icon looks a bit weird. See attached image. How to fix this? |
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this mod is great but it gave me a hard time. For some reason it HIDED must of the forum images.
So I Un-Install until I know how to fix it thanks |
#164
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I am testing this I get error on refresh
Default Style Error occurred: Your sprite folder is not writeable. Please check the permissions on the directory "". Where can I modify the directory? What is the default directory so I can make it writable. thanks |
#165
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Folder needs to be 755. |
#166
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Hello archet1337,
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GD had a problem handling grayscale images with alpha channel correctly, wich was fixed with GD 2.0.36 in the Year 2007. Quote:
The solution is to update the GD-Libary to 2.0.36 (or later) or replace every file which uses "gray+alpha" with an version using "color RGBA". I would advise to update the GD-Libary, cause there is also a serious security problem, that was fixed in the Year 2009 by Debian. Quote:
Best regards Sebastian |
#167
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Hello FReeSTER,
what exactly is your problem? i dont understand what you mean. Best regards Sebastian |
#168
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Thanks still have an issue with the error above.
Tried also in Vbulletin 3.8: Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/global.php(355) : eval()'d code on line 56 Fatal error: Class 'vB_Template' not found in /home/user/public_html/forum/index.php(596) : eval()'d code on line 157 I don't have time to hack it up for Vbulletin 3.8 but hopefully somebody does. |
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Hello popmyzit,
please look into the StyleVar imgdir_sprite. Since your error message just says Code:
Error occurred: Your sprite folder is not writeable. Please check the permissions on the directory "". Code:
images/sprites Sebastian |
#170
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Hello ZeroHour,
i just want to inform you, that i didnt forget your problem, but i didnt have the time to give you a solution at the moment. Best regards Sebastian |
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Thanks Sebastian will try the above,
best |
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