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Release 1.3.4beta2

enhanced: new target option allows changing the target element from li to any valid jquery selector. See target demo
enhanced: WordPress Friendly: better automatic default item selection with current page location URI, better support for returnHome and returnDelay, refined internal variable usage.
fixed: backLava hover element now exactly covers the destination <li> dimensions, including both elements' all four border sizes.
fixed: restored jQuery 1.2.6 compatibility: changed use of mouseleave/mouseenter to bind events so LavaLamp should work with jQuery 1.2.3 onward.
enhanced: behaves more like a plugin and now automatically adds proper position CSS tags to the backLava element and parent container if they are not present.

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A minified version and full zip with demos will come with 1.3.4 final release.

fixed: added closure with null passed argument for move() command in returnDelay to fix errors some were seeing - thanks to Michel and Richard for noticing this.
fixed: changed mouseover/mouseout events to mouseenter/mouseleave to fix jerky/stuttering animation problem when using large margins on <li> elements. Thanks to Thomas for the solution and Chris for clearly demonstrating the problem.
enhanced: New! Multi-layered Menu support - added noLava class detection to prevent LavaLamp effect on <li> elements with this class. See the demo page for details.
enhanced: modified to better automatically find default location for relative links. Thanks to Harold for testing and finding this bug.

Download jquery.lavalamp.1.3.3.js full js with comments and documentation

Download LavaLamp 1.3.3 package includes all test files with full and minified versions

Now what? Check out the tutorial and demos!

patched to remove stray $ references inside plugin to work correctly with jQuery.noConflict() mode.

autoReturn: true - if set to false, hover will not return to last selected item upon list mouseout.
returnDelay: 0 - if set, will delay auto-return feature specified # of milliseconds.
setOnClick: true - if set to false, hover will return to default element regardless of click event.
homeLeft: 0, homeTop: 0 - if either set to non zero value, absolute positioned li element with class .home is prepended to list for homing feature.
homeWidth: 0, homeHeight: 0 - if set, are used for creation of li.home element.
returnHome: false - if set along with homeLeft or homeTop, lavalamp hover will always return to li.home after click.

two big changes were made to the internals that may affect upgrading to this version. make sure to update your CSS class names and change linum to startItem when you upgrade!
a bug in the first few versions with the linum parameter created a nifty out-of-bounds fly in effect that several people requested as a feature, so the home features are born!
known issue: IE may throw an error if using an out-of-bounds home with too small height and width - I opened a ticket here: http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3881 but no one seemed interested in fixing it. Just be careful.

New default routine automagically attempts to match the location bar info to the appropriate link href tag for the active page - this should prevent need to use linum/startItem in most situations
click method now returns true by default, allowing link follow
cleaned up the original code for readability and efficiency

If you are certain you have found a bug or serious problem with the plugin, demos or tutorials, please write me and let me know what you've found.