jQuery.popeye 2.0 released

I have just released a new major version of my popular image gallery script jQuery.popeye. It features more customization options, better cross browser and mobile support and tons of bugfixes.
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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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Selecting input-fields with maxlength via jQuery

524288?
2147483647?
-1?
No, that’s not my bank account balance…

Unlike any other attribute, maxlength is implicitly present on any input-element. I had to find this out the hard way trying to select only input-elements with an explicitly set maxlength via the jQuery-selector input[maxlength].
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CSS Image Rollover – Final Words

In zwei Tutorials hatte ich bereits vorgestellt, wie sich Rollover, also Grafik-Links, die sich beim überfahren mit der Maus ändern, am besten per CSS gestalten lassen. Dieses Tutorial geht noch einen letzten Schritt weiter und fügt eine Kleinigkeit hinzu, die bisher fehlte: den Linktext.
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