I've created a ticket describing the specific problem with the Alpha
filter, and my proposed solution. Including a simplified test case
from a real world implementation where I first stumbled across this.

Hope it's not redundant and that it helps. My solution should not be
intrusive either (ie. wiping any other filters).

http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3901

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Frode

On Jan 16, 11:29 pm, John Resig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perfect - using that we can definitely implement a solution. We'll
> probably tackle this for 1.3.2.
>
> --John
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:26 PM, prefect <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ah, yes. I came across a particularly nasty side effect with clipping
> > of content with the alpha filter (I'd assume several filters do the
> > same, but alpha is what I've tested).
>
> > I'll be sure to make a simple test case demonstrating the problem
> > tomorrow (late in Norway now), which affects both IE 6 and 7.
>
> > --
> > Frode
>
> > On Jan 16, 8:46 pm, John Resig <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hmm, an interesting point. Do you have any test cases where the
> >> negative effect of an alpha filter is readily available? (It would
> >> help up to diagnose any problems if we were to implement this.)
>
> >> If you can think of one then feel free to file a 
> >> ticket!http://dev.jquery.com/newticket
>
> >> --John
>
> >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:45 PM, prefect <[email protected]> 
> >> wrote:
>
> >> > jQuery supports automatically using Explorer's Alpha filter for
> >> > setting an elements opacity, ie. when doing css('opacity', '0.5').
>
> >> > Explorer's filters have varying degrees of side effects, and to
> >> > minimize these I suggest automatically disabling the Alpha filter as
> >> > well when the opacity is set to 1.0, which equals no opacity anyway.
>
> >> > One can do this manually with css('filter', "alpha(enabled='false')"),
> >> > but I think jQuery just as well could do this automatically since it
> >> > already implisitly activates the filter.
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