I have searched the web high and low and have not been able to find a tutorial or example of using jQuery to fade an InfoBox/InfoWindow in Google Maps not the content the actual
It is actually possible to fadein the infobox, you have to override the draw function in the infobox.js file like this
var oldDraw = ib.draw; ib.draw = function() { oldDraw.apply(this); jQuery(ib.div_).hide(); jQuery(ib.div_).fadeIn('slow'); }