In this chapter, we have further investigated several techniques that can assist us in crafting beautiful animations that are helpful to our users. We can now individually control the acceleration and deceleration of each property we are animating, and halt these animations individually or globally if needed. We learned about the properties that jQuery's effects library defines internally, and how to change some of them to suit our needs. We made our first foray into the jQuery deferred object system, which we will explore further in Chapter 13, Advanced Ajax, and we got a taste of the many opportunities to fine-tune jQuery's animation system.
A complete list of effect and animation methods is available in Appendix B of this book, or in the official jQuery documentation at http://api.jquery.com/.