choppy show/hide effects

choppy show/hide effects


I am experimenting with the jquery ui effects and i am noticing
something that is very troubling. It appears that the effects are all
bounded by the size of the fully shown image. This is problematic,
since it causes choppiness in the showing and hiding of elements in a
web page. In other words, when the element is being shown, there is
choppiness: the full height of the box appears first, then the effect
happens, and when it is being hidden, there is more choppiness. Is
this by design, and if so, how is it possible to produce smooth
effects using this library.
An example of the behavior being exhibitted can be found here:
http://jolly-roger.lysdexia.org/test/
Please tell me if there is a workaround for this. ideally, it would
look more like:
http://jolly-roger.lysdexia.org/test/noui.html
Thanks,
Christopher