a:hover img {    
           filter: progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=50);    
           -moz-opacity: 0.5; /* Mozilla 1.6 */    
           -khtml-opacity: 0.5; /* Konqueror 3.1, Safari 1.1 */    
           opacity: 0.5; /* CSS3 - Mozilla 1.7b +, Firefox 0.9 +, Safari 1.2+, Opera 9 */    
           filter: alpha(opacity=50); /* IE 5.5+*/    
}