Another JavaScript light-window-ish-box
I remember, my first or second summer as an intern, I used a javascript lightbox on this (.NET) tool I was working on. I thought it was the greatest thing and yet it was so generic and buggy. It was a mess trying to get it to work with forms, too. Since then, there has been a ton of effort into improving alternatives to the modal/pop-up window. Well, I just stumbled upon what may be one of the nicest one’s to date: LightWindow. It appears to work very well with videos, flash animations, multiple image galleries, external sites, PDFs, etc. Plus, you can mix in different types of media into the same gallery, which is pretty cool. It may be a nice way to preview screens in a content building tool, which just so happens to be what I’ve been devoting most of my time to the last few months (at work, that is).

Luke Monday, 16 Jul, 2007 Posted at 02:28AM
Would you believe that one of my comrades at work spent 2 days hacking Lightbox2 just to to do about half these things … I showed him this, and he went home early to sulk. Well, no he didn’t, but you get the idea
Ryan Monday, 16 Jul, 2007 Posted at 05:51AM
I can’t even begin to say how many times I’ve hacked around in javascript, only to learn someone else has already accomplished what I needed—needless to say, I now look around first.