Couloir image fading effect

Richard Rutter over at Clagnut has spotted a fantastic little bit of javascript on the Couloir site. I'd seen the site before but I'd just assumed that it was another Flash photo switcher... Turns out that it's a pure HTML/JS thing! It's done so well that it didn't even occur to me to see how it worked.

The 'loading' message is in a div masking out the photo underneath. That's nothing new, but it's very well done. The clever bit is the dynamic opacity fading done onload, giving that proper macromedia look without the plug-in. Slick. Very slick.

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