jQuery.popeye Inline Lightbox Alternative
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008jQuery.popeye transforms an unoredered list of images into a box displaying only one preview image at a time. The box has controls to skim through the preview images and to enlarge a given image. The box expands to accomodate the enlarged version, while the controls are hidden in full image size mode. A simple click on the image returns the box to its compact state.
The compact box has fixed, automatically calculated dimensions. The widht and height are calculated so that all thumbnail images are cropped to the smallest width and height in the set and centered resulting image area (stage).
This behaviour can be overriden in the plugin options.
Also available is a demo page which best shows the behavior of jQuery.popeye.
The nice thing about jQuery.popeye is that it degrades gracefully into a scrollable list of thumbnails which link to an enlarged version.
For more details, head over to the jQuery.popeye homepage. You can also go directly to the download page.
