The Best Javascript Lightbox
No Comments// Posted in News by Julian on 12.09.08.
At work I spent some time trying various javascript lightboxes and trying to find a decent one for a commercial website. Eventually I stumbled upon Lightview by Nick Stakenburg. You need to purchase a license to use it, but it’s pretty cheap—considering how long it would take to write this myself—and it looks great. We’ve utilised it for displaying both images and youtube videos with some simple code. We were using lightbox before but the basic presentational changes are well worth the money, and it is also simpler to implement!
<a class=”lightview” title=”" rel=”flash” href=”http://www.youtube.com/video_id”>
<img class=”screenshot_thumb” src=”images/thumb.jpg”/>
</a>
I’ll be buying further commercial lightview licenses and rolling this out to all our work website soon. If you are looking for a good lightbox then you can’t go far wrong with this! Check it out via the link below.
