Miscellaneous Hacks - [YUI] Animation Effects

It's Function:

• Adds fade-in effect to all popup menus
• Adds slide-up/down effect to all collapsible blocks

(Applies to all pages including any custom mod)

Demo:
see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ww3P1aqb1Y

Installation:

• Upload the content in 'upload' folder
• Import the product available in zip file

Side Notes:
This mod uses YUI Animation utility available on all vBulletin installations
On Forum Home page, sidebar uses this utility already, when this product is enabled, it will avoid duplicate calls for the same utility by removing the call made by sidebar

How to upgrade:
From 1.00 to 1.1.1

• Uninstall the previous version (required so we can get rid of the extra template)
• Import the product

From 1.1 to 1.1.1

• Re-import the product overwriting the existing one

Update Log:
Version 1.1.1

Corrected path to YUI Animation utility in plugin

Version 1.1

There is no need for an extra template file anymore, "headinclude_javascript" is being used now

Note: if you are using Remote YUI setup, you better keep version 1.00 and don't upgrade, or manually edit the plugin to correct the path to YUI Animation utility

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by winstone

well checking with Chrome and FF3.5 on W7 64Bit it's working fine on your site, can't you see the fade effect on popup menus or slow scroll up on blocks when you collapse them? normally they just appear or disappear (instantly)

i can't see the fade effect dude ... the scroll up of the menus is normal ...

[winstone]

Originally Posted by ps2wiz

Does this have a negative impact on SEO since it adds a lot of javascript and obviously search bots can not read/see Java?

short answer, no it doesn't have a negative impact

[winstone]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

i can't see the fade effect dude ... the scroll up of the menus is normal ...

weird, but hey at least it works for others

[AzzidReign]

How server intensive can this get if you own a big board?

[winstone]

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

How server intensive can this get if you own a big board?

This is not Ajax and is only client side so it has no effect on server what so ever

[Trek]

Originally Posted by winstone

weird, but hey at least it works for others

I just checked KURTZ' site and I don't see it either. Works the same as normal. Maybe he doesn't have the mod installed any longer?

Either way, I'm also on Win7, 64 bit WW3.5.7 and it's just not doing anything different than a standard install. No fades, no smooth scrollups.

Not sure what the issue would be (again, assuming he still has it installed).

[winstone]

Originally Posted by Trek

I just checked KURTZ' site and I don't see it either. Works the same as normal. Maybe he doesn't have the mod installed any longer?

Either way, I'm also on Win7, 64 bit WW3.5.7 and it's just not doing anything different than a standard install. No fades, no smooth scrollups.

Not sure what the issue would be (again, assuming he still has it installed).

looking at it's source html code, Its not installed there anymore

[choitz]

Very nice touch - Cheers!

[Infopro]

Originally Posted by winstone

so it is somehow compatible with 3.8. too, sweet

I haven't tested it myself on 3.8, I got vB about 2 years ago and haven't had time to upgrade my board yet (i know its a long time and the actual reason is my laziness lol), still running some other system and just preparing to finally make the migration directly to vB4
...

Well, sort of. And I did have to edit it a bit.

<script type="text/javascript" src="$stylevar[yuipath]/animation/animation-min.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/yui_animation_effects.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>

It might just be me, but it does seem to open menus a bit faster. As for actual animation, not so much I don't think different than defaults. I've got some long menus and they seem to drag a bit at times, adding this I think, speeds them up.

[Xeyn]

Ahhhhhh...Made my forums look so much better....thx dude