Please notice at the top, if you click "New thread", the new thread form loads on the page. Also note that if you click "post below threshold", it toggles the threshold slider on and off.

For some reason setting the threshold control to have a default css display of "none" totally screws up the line, and it doesn't look entirely correct until you actually drag the slider a bit.

As such, I'm in the market for a different slider. This one's a piece of shit.

Can you use the Yahoo! slider?

It's released under a BSD license. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/slider/index.html

Yep this one is pretty cool ;)

It looks like the exiting JavaScript load is as follows:

overlib - 49KB
blur6ex - 31KB

slider/range - 6kb
slider/slider - 16kb
slider/timer - 4kb

so to add the YUI slider you'd remove the existing slider and add an additional 35KB of javascript.

The YUI Connection Ajax library is about the same size as Sajax, so there's no savings there; however, the utilities and API calls provided could help you reduce some of the custom code in blur6ex.js. I doubt it'd reduce it to the tune of 35K, but the net gain *could* probably end up being 15-25KB.

But just removing the existing slider and gaining that 35KB isn't too bad.

Here, do this. Take that big, fat Overlib library and run it through this: http://javascriptcompressor.com/

That'll take it down to 22KB, shaving off a good 27K. Then the net gain from that new slider is more like 8KB.

Actually, make a habit of compressing blur6ex.js too (just a step you do before pushing new releases out).