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I’m gathering some ideas for future use, and thought occurred: of the various photo presentation devices such as LightBox and ThickBox, etc., would any be more suited to the jQuery nature of the upcoming EE 2.0?

I’m thinking of using such a device in a site redesign (utilizing weblogs, not the gallery), and wondered which, if any, might be more suitable?

As we know, EE2 will support jquery by default, so that’s probably the direction I’d go. There are a couple of jquery plugins for that purpose, actually. Couple of links for you:

http://www.balupton.com/sandbox/jquery_lightbox/
http://warren.mesozen.com/jquery-lightbox/
http://www.projectatomic.com/2008/05/jquery-litebox/
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/SlightlyThickerbox/
http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/
http://www.willjessup.com/sandbox/jquery/tweenbox/tweenbox.htm
http://www.aspstat.com/73

Thanks, Ingmar!

I am using Lightbox in a project.  Works beautifully.  For this project, I wrote a Javascript snippet to auto-create the pathname used by Lightbox from the thumbnail name that EE generates.

Just what i was looking for! Thanks!

Ok, i had to modify some stuff for this to work with multiple images on my page. This took me some time as a jQuery newbie, but i’m there and thought i’d share some too 😊

$(function() {

de_thumb();

});

function de_thumb()
{
    $(".thumb").each(function() {

        $('img',this).each(function(){
            //console.log〈$(this〉.parent());
            var src = $(this).attr("src");
            //console.log〈src〉;
            $(this).parent().attr({href : src.replace("_thumb", "")});

        })
    });
}

HTML

<a href="http://" class="thickbox thumb">{foto_pasfoto}</a>

Hi ParisJC,

Our library of choice is Highslide. Much cleaner then lightbox and has a lot more features. I also like to combine Instant and their other libraries for my photo galleries.

Good stuff, check it out.

Mike