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Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

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Re: Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

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Post by jrajav »

mhd wrote: post #19

Anyone else still confused by the word "responsive"? I always expect something with a high degree of interaction, widgets etc., instead of just meaning "resizes how HTML should resize".

In the context of web design, responsive means that the webpage adjusts elegantly to different browser form factors and navigation capabilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_Web_Design

Re: Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

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Post by Trezoid »

I don't understand why so few lightbox plugins (and sites with custom ones) do the actual image link properly.

The image should be a link either to a page for that specific image (facebook style) or just to the full sized image itself. That way if the person has js disabled, or middle clicks, or opens in new tab they'll still get the image, but you can intercept a normal click and show the pretty lightbox if they're browsing "normally".

It's not like it's super complex or anything, but everyone goes the "image is only useful for the lightbox" path.

Re: Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

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Post by tayl0r » 

  "In fact, Fresco in the first truly responsive lightbox.
  Give the demonstrations a try to see what that means,
  make sure to adjust your screen size (or rotate your
  device)."
On OSX Chrome I resized my browser and all it seemed to do was scale the content. It didn't change any layouts or do any "magic"... How is this so special?

Re: Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

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Post by mhd »

jrajav wrote: post #24
mhd wrote: post #19

Anyone else still confused by the word "responsive"? I always expect something with a high degree of interaction, widgets etc., instead of just meaning "resizes how HTML should resize".

In the context of web design, responsive means that the webpage adjusts elegantly to different browser form factors and navigation capabilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_Web_Design

I'm aware of that. But as I've said, that term still tends to confuse me at first, especially when it's not paired immediately with "web design" or "layout". It's a pretty common word, and this very specific meaning has been around for, what, two years?

Re: Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

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Post by calinet6 »

philjackson wrote: post #6

These things break the web by making it impossible for me to send a link pointing at the lightboxed content to a friend.

Also has broken usability: the next/prev arrows move underneath my cursor based on the size of the image.

So many lightboxes get this wrong. I don't get what's so hard. Keep the main UI in one place.

Re: Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

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Post by cdmoyer »

tayl0r wrote: post #26

"In fact, Fresco in the first truly responsive lightbox. Give the demonstrations a try to see what that means, make sure to adjust your screen size (or rotate your device)." On OSX Chrome I resized my browser and all it seemed to do was scale the content. It didn't change any layouts or do any "magic"... How is this so special?

On my iphone, clicking an image opened as a tiny thumbnail at the top right and I couldn't navigate to the other images. A lightbox that worke on desktop and mobile smoothly would be great. But this doesn't see to be it. (and even better, as others note, handled links and herfs nicely.)
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