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14 days of jQuery Beginning on January 14th, we’ll start a fourteen-day event. Each day we’ll have fresh videos and announcements — there’ll be code releases, project-related updates, and jQuery UI goodness, among other things. In addition to the announcements, we’ll also be releasing a set of videos over the 14 days with talks and tutorials relating the jQuery 1.4 release and other general jQuery topics. You’ll want to check back at http://jquery14.com/ every day during the two weeks to see what’s new, or sign up to be notified via email. Think of it like an online conference, only longer, freer, and with a bit of mystery and suspense!

14 days of jQuery

Beginning on January 14th, we’ll start a fourteen-day event. Each day we’ll have fresh videos and announcements — there’ll be code releases, project-related updates, and jQuery UI goodness, among other things. In addition to the announcements, we’ll also be releasing a set of videos over the 14 days with talks and tutorials relating the jQuery 1.4 release and other general jQuery topics. You’ll want to check back at http://jquery14.com/ every day during the two weeks to see what’s new, or sign up to be notified via email. Think of it like an online conference, only longer, freer, and with a bit of mystery and suspense!
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Today’s Discovery

Today while working with jQuery and the maxImage plug-in I discovered that you can not set a with a transparent background without breaking maxImage. Instead of:

$('#content').css('background-color','rgba(255,255,255,0.82)');

I went with this fadeTo solution which works in IE7/8 and produces the same results:

$('#content').fadeTo(0,.82));

This will also work:

$('#content').css('opacity',.82));