One of my new favorite blogs to read is jQuery for designers. Mainly because the guy who runs it seems to have the same obsession for the very design elements I do and partly because he’s better at jQuery than I am and I learn something every article I read (or watch, he offers screencasts for every article which is… mmm… unique).

One of the many techniques I have needed for this next wordpress theme I’m releasing is a fading hover effect. You can see it used on Dragon Labs as well as the jQuery UI site. Unfortunately the only site is done in degradable and semantic way is Dragon Labs, but Anand doesn’t have his code readily available and I haven’t talked to him in years. So… I tore into the code available from jqueryfordesigners…

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This is a small post made in hopes it reaches a JavaScriptdeveloper, who in turn passes it along to another, then another, so-on-and-so-forth…

I use jQuery with nearly every project. While I find it easier and easier to roll my own JavaScript, I’m not one for reinventing the wheel. If a plug-in exists that does what I want, I’ll use it. The first thing I do is check if they have a packed version (size matters). If not, I pack my own. My problems start when developers don’t have a packed version already available. Chances are, if they don’t have a packed version available, it’s because the JavaScript packer breaks their code. Not because it’s bad code, and not because there is something wrong with Dean Edwards packer, but because when code is packed certain operations are changed if the code isn’t written perfectly.

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In the process of writing the new WebMaster Marketplace over at MySpacePros I used InnerFade for jQuery and realized it wouldn’t work when it was packed with Dean Edward’s packer. I found the issue and fixed it (just a missing semi-colon), but contacting the creator didn’t go so well (Anyone speak German?) so I figured I’d post the fix here. That and it’s been a while since my last post.

If you’re wondering, it’s line 69. $.innerfade = function() {} should be $.innerfade = function() {};. If it’s not, it won’t compress.

Download InnerFade for jQuery (fixed and packed)