Today's Discovery
Today while working with jQuery and the maxImage plug-in I discovered that you can not set a with a transparent background without breaking maxImage. Instead of:
$('#content').css('background-color','rgba(255,255,255,0.82)');
I went with this fadeTo solution which works in IE7/8 and produces the same results:
$('#content').fadeTo(0,.82));
This will also work:
$('#content').css('opacity',.82));