LightWindow v2.0

The ultimate light-'whatever'

After researching every single modal window, lightbox, slimbox, etc out there nothing fit the bill. Granted some of them were very nice but only fit a specific purpose, others were a nightmare on the code end, and others were just hacks of another. None of them truly supported all of the features we needed and those that were close could not be easily adapted without a bottle of Prozac near by.

Other caveats were the complete lack of ability to style and position the system, and the insane over-kill of some of the systems trying to reproduce either another desktop (As if most computer users aren’t confused enough) or the reproduction of a popup window (Show me someone who likes popup windows…). Lastly, most people didn’t actually test for their media types and how they behaved in other browsers and operating systems (Yes the movies and Flash work in Firefox for the Mac).

Backwards Compatibility: Tested in Windows Firefox/IE6/IE7/Safari3/Opera & Mac Firefox/Safari/Opera/Netscape (Keep in mind my theme that I have provided can be changed and the advanced level of the theme has an effect on browser compatibility).

App submitted Mon 14 Jan '08
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RG Unfortunately not the galleries don't work properly on IE7. Be warned. The resize function has trouble getting the width and height of images on IE distorting the end result after a while. Thu 24 Jan '08  ·  Flag
Robert Butler I can't get LightWindow 2.0 to darken the background in IE7. Strangely enough, a different app Lightbox++ has the same problem. Even more strange, the background darkens fine in IE7 on the site's demo pages, which puts the problem on my end, except I haven't altered anything. WTF. Fri 6 Mar '09  ·  Flag
sproutify copy black.png and black-70.png images in your lightwindow/images folder to your images folder. Make sure your folder structure is similar to the lightwindow folder Tue 12 May '09  ·  Flag