I just moved over to jQuery yesterday and I'm trying to port my Mootools slide code. The Mootools slide was very smooth but I like jQuery's syntax and philosophy better.
I was comparing Interface.SlideToggleUp (http://interface.eyecon.ro/ docs/fx) and jQuery.slideToggle (http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/ slideToggle). I liked the effect of Interface better because the element being toggled actually moves up under the element above (like Mootools), as opposed to merely being eclipsed by the element below. However, I noticed some bad behavior from both Interface and JQ in both IE 6/7 and FF and I'm wondering if it's operator headspace or if one or both of the libraries are buggy. There are several issues and they are illustrated with these two pages, dealing with two versions of jQuery and the current version of Interface Elements. http://monovisiondesign.com/client/jquery/slidetoggle-jquery-1.1.2.htm http://monovisiondesign.com/client/jquery/slidetoggle-jquery-1.2.2.htm ------- 1. JQ 1.2.2 & Interface.SlideToggleUp: After the SlideToggleUp event, Firebug started logging a string of errors and the script crashed in both FF and IE: this.options.curAnim has no properties http://monovisiondesign.com/client/jquery/js/jquery-1.2.2.js Line 3217 2. JQ 1.1.2. & Interface.SlideToggleUp: No errors. But in FF there is a flicker or a jump when the event fires. In both FF and IE there is some funkiness with the element width and/or height. I saw a post somewhere that suggested setting the height to 'auto' in the callback function but that didn't work. 3. JQ 1.2.2 / 1.1.2 & JQ.slideToggle: Smooth sailing in FF, (except for the effect itself (the eclipse of the element)). However, very jumpy in IE, with the text popping up to the top of the div before being eclipsed. ------- I also attempted to use the jQuery.easing plugin. On its website (http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/) instructions stated that the default JQ easing method could be set thusly: jQuery.easing.def = 'easeInBounce'; However, when I ran the script the only permutation that sort of seemed to work was JQ 1.2.2 and Interface.SlideToggleUp, which as noted earlier always crashed. I don't know how many of these problems are my inexperience with JQ and/or Interface, or one or the other not being quite ready for prime time (I don't mean that offensively). Any assistance would be very much appreciated. I do like JQ's style much better than Prototype or Mootools but it seems that compatibility issues still exist across browsers and plugins. -Rus
