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hoverFlow - A Solution to Animation Queue Buildup
The hoverFlow plugin helps you build smoother hover animations with jQuery.
When creating hover animations (for example navigation bars), you might have come across the problem of animation queue buildup: When you mouseover/-out an element a couple of times, the animation will continue even after you stop moving the mouse. Using the stop()-method is a first answer, but creates unnatural animations.
The hoverFlow plugin honors a single mouseover/-out with a full animation cycle while still preventing animation queue buildup.
A queued animation will only run if it corresponds with the current mouse position at "runtime" (that is, when the animation is dequeued, not when the event was triggered). A mouseover animation will only run if the mouse is currently over the element, and a mouseout animation will only run if the mouse is currently not over the element. Otherwise, the animation queue is empied.
The easiest way to compare the different approaches is to have a look at the plugin homepage. :-)
