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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 lywald »

benhomie wrote: post #22
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.

You can have a unique link for the lightbox simply by using a query string to automatically launch the lightbox.

I think he means we can't even Right click -> Copy Image URL, at least not in Chrome

So there's no way to access the raw image without searching in source code (unless I'm missing something).

In any case that's what I don't really like about it.

Re: Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

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Post by lean »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #9
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.

And there's no reason that this has to be the case either. The JavaScript history API could be used to push unique URLs into the address bar on each image view.

jQuery tools has a product that does just that: http://jquerytools.org/demos/tabs/ajax-history.html

Re: Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

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Post by jackmoore »

dkroy wrote: post #39

Or you could download http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox and set the height and width to a percentage. That has always worked for me. You can choose to put pretty much anything in there, not to mention that it is licensed under the MIT License. Still great work though, you got my vote, hope you sell a bunch of licenses!

I'm colorbox's author, and just wanted to say thanks for the recommendation.
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