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Is it just me or is the Lighbox effect really annoying? What's wrong with middle-clicking an image and having it open in a new tab?
"What is middle click?" - my grandma, who has a scroll wheel in the middle of her mouse
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Worse is when there's a series of images being displayed in a lightbox and because the whole thing "needs" to be centered and the navigation is not absolutely positioned, the next and previous buttons move around on the screen.
Yeah, I forgot about that one, which is by far the most annoying. Often times I have to scroll down a page just to get to the nav buttons. Down with lightbox!
For example, a lightbox that fades when you scroll the page might be less invasive.
So I will get lightboxed even with my no-javascript browsing habits? I liked that most sites simply serve the direct image url to me. Lightbox is an annoying eye-candy.
A lightbox is really just an implementation of a 'modal dialog / window' - which is useful, because it demands the user's attention before it can be dismissed. Being able to produce such a window in web applications could be useful in many situations - we don't need to limit them to image display. The fact that 'lightboxes' have been abused / over-used, isn't a reason to dismiss the technology.
Kind of like Flash :)
This is pretty cool. Suggestions: - respect my back button [1] - allow me to click outside the picture or press esc to close the lightbox - allow middle-click to open the image directly [1] We can argue about transitions and correct behavior all day, but this implementation is different from other lightboxes I've seen, and thus it is "broken" to me.
Word. I always make my lightboxes to close on ESC. I hate when I'm forced to click some tiny random-located icon.
So I will get lightboxed even with my no-javascript browsing habits? I liked that most sites simply serve the direct image url to me. Lightbox is an annoying eye-candy.
Is it just me or is the Lighbox effect really annoying? What's wrong with middle-clicking an image and having it open in a new tab?
Another problen is that laptops dont have a middle click. And Ctrl clicking with on a laptop with the trackpad is really annoying.
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A lightbox is really just an implementation of a 'modal dialog / window' - which is useful, because it demands the user's attention before it can be dismissed. Being able to produce such a window in web applications could be useful in many situations - we don't need to limit them to image display. The fact that 'lightboxes' have been abused / over-used, isn't a reason to dismiss the technology.
"The fact that 'lightboxes' have been abused / over-used, isn't a reason to dismiss the technology." Kind of like Flash :)
So I will get lightboxed even with my no-javascript browsing habits? I liked that most sites simply serve the direct image url to me. Lightbox is an annoying eye-candy.
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If the close button had an 'onclick="javascript:history.back()"' attached to it, we wouldn't have this problem :) [We can argue the pureness of the demo after that till the end of time though.]
Another option, without the need for javascript would be to use the hover pseudo-class to display images instead of an anchor link.
Dont like how when i press the back button i get a history of pictures i have viewed. If i am at liberty to choose whichever picture i want then i dont need the back button to preserve my selection history. When i click back, i want to go BACK to the site i just came from. I assume this isnt some bug or some flaw, and that it can probably be coded to behave differently, but as things stand that would prevent me from…
It's funny you say this, because preserving state and history is one the the things JS-based solutions tend to lack. Check this out: http://playground.deaxon.com/css/lightbox/#pic3 That's a permalink to an individual lightboxed photo. No JS, no server-side magic. Colour me very impressed.