Hi, I've built a testpage to document this issues with fadeIn/Out: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/branches/labs/fadequeue/index.html
As written on that page, the issues are: - Without using stop(), animations just queue up, thats inacceptable - With just using stop(), styles end up in the middle, screwing up the next fade, that is, stopping a fadeout half way through will cause the next fade in to not fade to 1 - Using stop(false, true) will finish the animations, which worksaround the above problems, but the result is ugly, as a stopped fadeout will skip to the end, then fade in again from 0, instead of just fading in from the current opacity - The crazy complicated stuff, using a mix of fadeIn/Out and fadeTo, apart from being way too complicated, has the big drawback that the fadeTo-animations take exactly as long as the others, while it usually doesn't fade from 0 to 1, but only from, say, 0.7 to 1. Adding a calculation to figure out how long the animation should be relative to the current opacity would make this just more complicated. - fadeIn/Out can use opacity values defined in CSS stylesheets, while fadeTo requires the user to specify the opacity My goal for now is to create a plugin, with your help, that can be used instead of fadeIn/Out. It would not queue up animations, it would read opacity from stylesheets, just like fadeIn/Out do, and it would adjust the animation duration relative to the current opacity if a fade is stopped/reversed, so that if a fade in is stopped half-way through by a fadeout, the fadeout would only take half the specified duration, resulting in the same animation speed all the time. Based on how the plugin ends up, I hope we can port back something to jQuery Core to make that available just as easily as fadeIn/Out. Looking forward to your ideas. Jörn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en.
