On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Pedro Melo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, trans <[email protected]> wrote: >> Really? Of all the things you could be working on, you decide a fancy >> sliding effect is the thing to do? Please don't waste my CPU cycles on >> something that is actually annoying, not cool. > > So instead of getting the entire page, and wasting server-side CPU > cycles, Github switches to a AJAX call that fetches just the required > parts of the page. > > If you clicked the link and nothing happened I suppose you would be > complaining that github was slow, or broken. > > Instead they used a small sliding effect to make sure you notice that > they are fetching the new data. > > Honestly, I agree with you that useless JS effects are a waste of CPU. > I just don't think that classification applies to this case. > > Bye, > -- > Pedro Melo > http://www.simplicidade.org/ > xmpp:[email protected] > mailto:[email protected] >
Well put. Consider also that the vertical scroll position in the tree is maintained between transitions. I'm able to locate files in deep trees considerably more quickly. Ryan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
