We use popups all over FamSpam, be it for displaying photos or our privacy policy. When the stock Lightbox library we were using began to get boring, we quickly threw together our own version based on Facebook’s look and feel. The result became Facebox, a jQuery Lightbox library in the Facebook style.
It’s even got its own website: http://famspam.com/facebox. Check it out, take ‘er for a spin, and enjoy.
I see modal dialog boxes abused all the time; they are very rarely the appropriate tool to use. I know you’re probably using them for the 5% case that’s actually appropriate, but I just know that by releasing this, you’re going to see it used in a lot of really terrible situations. Maybe you could include in the readme an admonition to never use a modal dialog where a normal, non-interruptive one would do.
A bit of background reasoning: http://brokies.com/brokies/57
I think is a wonderful library since it makes lightbox pop-up fast. Speed is to be considered when you’re developing web apps or websites you need to show an appealing and functional user interface. Lots of ligthbox libraries make things tortuous and just, because of their heavy scripting, don’t work. That’s not Facebox case.
Thanks for sharing this library!
We used your code for our development of this site http://about.telus.com/investors/annualreport2007/ If you go to this page http://about.telus.com/investors/annualreport2007/investor-overview/2007-highlights.php and click the “expand+” you will see how it was used. Great code!
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