That's a great suggestion, but the js snippet does not rely on any external toolkit that would make cross-browser text fading easy to do. Everything it needs to work it provides for itself. It's not even minified but ends up 1.7KB gzipped. I kinda like it that way.

Also, the snippet is really meant for people who can't do this on their own - really, someone with beginner jQuery skills can probably create this on their own site in 10 minutes, so forgive it for being bare bones.