fade background images with css3

Question

Hey everyone... Im wondering why this wont work?

.right-article.boy {
    background: transparent url(../images/boxes-bg/boy.jpg) left top no-repeat;
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Answer 1

Have a look at http://css3.bradshawenterprises.com/cfimg/ – I wrote this tutorial to help people with issues like this!

Answer 2

i can't imagine how image would change during 1.5s.
i would do this a little bit different:
http://jsfiddle.net/seler/48BM4/1/ or http://jsfiddle.net/seler/48BM4/2/

with images it would work like that: http://jsfiddle.net/seler/48BM4/3/

another example iwth auto height and no need to duplicate content:
http://jsfiddle.net/seler/48BM4/7/