I know totally what you mean and have a rough idea how to do it. But the crafting grid template is a total mess and could do with re-writing anyway.
we could just copy everything from another wiki 
1. We did last time (you don't need to know what it's doing to see it was stolen of the Minecraft wiki at about MC Beta 1.6 ish time
2. That's what I was thinking of doing anyway 
Coming back to this (I've been poking around the wiki again)...
If this is added to http://wiki.industrial-craft.net/index.php?titl…Wiki:Common.css
.animated-grid {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
opacity: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
.animated-grid.active {
position: relative;
width:auto;
height:auto;
opacity: 1;
}
and this added to http://wiki.industrial-craft.net/index.php?titl…aWiki:Common.js
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.animated-grids').each(function() {
var $current = $(this).children().first();
$current.addClass('active');
});
setInterval(function() {
$('.animated-grids').each(function() {
var $current = $(this).children('.active');
var $next = $current.nextAll(':not(.skip):first');
if (!$next.length) {
$next = $(this).children(':not(.skip):first');
}
$current.removeClass('active');
$next.addClass('active');
});
}, 2000);
});
I should maybe be able to hack in animated grids. I don't think it should be hard to add the tags, but you never know
And it is done: http://wiki.industrial-craft.net/index.php?titl…#Animation_Test I'll make a thread for every large new thing once the initial changes are stable and working.