You know something is definitely the "in-thing" when the fake version also gets bantered around... yes, there is now a term for it: Fajax, or Fake Ajax.
The idea is you use IE inter-page transitions. I use these on the pages in my site (and blogged about it exactly one year ago now). You need to add a meta tag to the <head> of your document... something like:
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit"
content="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(duration=.5)" />
I get questions about this effect that is in use on this page every month or so... it should no longer be a mystery hopefully.
They have a nice side-effect of reducing the flicker associated with post-backs. Essentially what IE does is capture an image of the page before, and then renders the new page in-memory first to create a second image. It then uses DirectX to smoothly blend one image to another.
Posted on Wednesday, 5/31/2006 @ 11:58 PM
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