[Javascript] Fade transition onmouseover/out based on CSS :hover?

[Barney Carroll]

Cutter (JS Related) wrote:
> Word of warning, though. I'm using Firefox, in which it doesn't appear 
> to do anything.

I did notice that. None of the button onclick functions returned 
anything. However the seekTo() function does work and in this instance 
it's exactly what I wanted. I'm not paying massive attention right now 
but I assume the reason for the buttons not working is down to an 
IE-proprietary DOM method – which shouldn't be that hard to fix (BTW the 
'killer feature' is beyond what I thought was possible, Tedd – I'll 
definitely have to try and make that cross-browser).


> What were your reservations about using JQuery? There 
> are several, light-weight, DOM frameworks out there. Don't reinvent the 
> wheel if you don't have to.

Well... It's the reason I subscribe to this list (it's also the reason I 
stick to text editors and graphics programs in web dev). Because I want 
to manipulate the DOM hands-on. Because the term WYSIWYG is completely 
misleading. When I look at the code I see what I'm actually going to get 
as opposed to an abstraction that goes through other filters. I want to 
write scripts that do exactly what I want and I want to understand them. 
It's the same reason I can't get into Flash – I just can't work with 
these black boxes whose inner workings are acts of God that I can't 
really take responsibility – or account – for.

In essence, I'd rather be learning lowest-denominator javascript than 
some other bizarre language that teaches me how to use a product but not 
much else directly (ie libraries). I can easily see the advantages to 
just using jQuery, but it's just not me.


Regards,
Barney