Some time ago 37 Signals pioneered what they call the Yellow Fade Technique, or YFT. You might have seen it on Basecamp or Backpack.

Jamie asked me the other day if I knew how it was done. I had seen a tutorial for it before, but hadn’t bookmarked or blogged it! So after a few minutes of Googling a found a couple of possible how-tos:

• The Yellow Fade Technique, Revisisted. I don’t know how or why this is better than the original. But it’s revisited, so it must be, I guess!
• The Fade Anything Technique
• And the find of the afternoon - script.aculo.us - this site has lots of goodies. Shall have to poke around here some more!

However, none of these were the original tutorial that I was looking for… :/

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