I’ve blogged twice before about PrettyPhoto which is a kind of thickbox/lightbox that I enjoy working with, but recently I’m looking at ColorBox, which is another one of the same style of plugins to use and I think works really well.
According to the website ColorBox is tested In: Firefox 2 & 3, Safari 3 & 4, Opera 9, Chrome, Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8. (I haven’t confirmed in all browsers as of yet, but it looks good in Firefox 3.5 and IE7/IE8 that I’m aware of.)
You can read more here about what it offers. But among it is :
- Supports photos, photo groups, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
- Lightweight: only 9KB of JavaScript.
- Appearance is completely controlled through CSS so users can restyle the box.
- Behavior settings can be over-written without altering the ColorBox javascript file.
- Completely unobtrusive, requires no changes to existing HTML
- Preloads background images to avoid flash of unstyled content on first use.
- Can preload upcoming images in a photo group.
- Written in jQuery plugin format and can be chained with other jQuery commands.
- Generates W3C valid XHTML and CSS, adds no JS global variables & passes JSLint.
- Released under the MIT License.
where’s my screen shot at yo
I was at a seminar once (can’t remember what it was about), and invited one of my employees to attend it with me. There were maybe 100 or so people in the room, and at the end the hosts went into the typical Q&A session. As I raised my hand to ask a question, my associate looked at me with deer-in-the-headlights eyes and asked, incredulously, ‘Are you really going to ask a question?!?’ To her it was simply inconceivable to do something like that. There is an entire block of readers that will NEVER consider leaving a comment, it’s just not part of their personality style.