Lightview: A Better Lightbox (clone)?

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Lightview is an AJAX image viewer similar to the ever so famous Lightbox JS. It features very nice, PNG-less, customizable rounded corners, a slideshow mode, pulsing captions, and a very clean and smooth blackout animation and slideshow transition.

One thing that I really like about Lightview is that the image remains stationary when scrolling unlike in Lightbox where the image scrolls with the content.

Still, the script was implemented on Scriptaculous and Prototype, which, given the size of these things may not be the way to go for sites optimized for speed. For those looking for a lighter lightbox alternative, Slimbox may be the better choice.

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3 Responses to “Lightview: A Better Lightbox (clone)?”

  1. Jason Says:
    January 28th, 2008 at 12:31 am

    Filesize is not a problem if you use compression.
    Prototype and Scriptaculous combined are just 28k,
    google for Protopacked.

  2. Mike Says:
    January 28th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    I too like Lightview. I also like Thickbox for it’s ability to have other content than just images displayed in the same ‘overlay’ fashion - even Flash movies work.

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