Generally this is no rocket science, using the CSS3 attribute “opacity”, unfortunately CSS3 is not supported by many browsers. As an alternative one could use JavaScript, which also might not work everywhere (if disabled due to security measures). So the easy way only works in the latest versions of Firefox and Opera.
(Take a look at a live demo here)
In order to get this working in all the browsers (Ok, using IE6 we’ll have to trick a little bit, but we’ll discuss this later) we have to approach this in a sneaky way.
Here is a simple, fast, lean, cross browser functional and JavaScript free method, only using plain HTML, CSS and graphical elements:
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Author: mr-mojo-risin
- Tags: background, browser, chrome, code, css, div, effect, firefox, graphic, hint, IE6, IE6 hack, IE7, Mouse Over, mouseover, Opacity, opera, trick
Google is passing the next logical milestone towards complete internet domination in a determined way, they are releasing their very own browser. Denied since years the gauntlet shall be slapped on Microsoft today at 20:00 GMT and Chrome should be available for download in over 100 countries.
The own browser closes an important gap in the Google web portfolio, offering already email and office applications, online advertisement, analysis tools, a feed reader, an instant messenger, blog software, online photo albums, translators and not to forget the different websearches.
So it’ll be interesting, what exactly they will deliver…
But as Michael Arrington from Techchrunch said, one should think about whether we really want Google to know everything we do online.
(Btw, Techchrunch.com seems to be offline, any coincidence with their critic…?)
