Overlapping select field bug in IE6 – solved jQuery-style

When using drop-down navigation like Son of Suckerfish, which entails placing absolute positioned layers above the content layer, Internet Explorer 6 displays once again really stupid behavior when it comes to HTML forms with the SELECT element. When the drop-down layer hovers above a form, the SELECT still shines through, it stays above it and cannot be convinced by z-index or any other CSS trick to go where it belongs.
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jQuery.popeye 1.0 released

jQuery.popeye 2.0 has been released. Older Versions are no longer supported.

More than 100 comments on the first release of jQuery.popeye, an appearance on the frontpage of delicious.com and coverage in uncounted blogs…

I certainly didn’t expect that much interest. The numerous feature requests,  suggestions, bug reports and, in the end, acknowledgments and nice comments prompted me to continue development, as promised. So here it is, in a major release, a completely rewritten and overhauled jQuery.popeye, the image gallery plugin that started as an alternative to the famous JavaScript lightbox.
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jQuery.popeye – an inline lightbox alternative

jQuery.popeye 2.0 has been released. Older Versions are no longer supported.

Writing the history of single-page image galleries on the web, one could start like this:

In the beginning, there was nothing. And the Developer said: “Let there be pop-ups!” And the Users saw that pop-ups were bad…

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