Lightbox That Displays Any Media: LightWindow

5 Aug

LightWindow is a highly configurable Lightbox (modal window) solution built with Prototype & script.aculo.us.

It can display any media including Flash, Quicktime or an external website. And, it has gallery support with a multi-gallery feature.

The modal window can be custom positioned and it is automatically resized to fit the content.

LightWindow can be re-styled including markup, CSS & animations easily. Besides clicking on the close button & outside of the modal window, ESC key works for this feature too.

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Requirements: Prototype, Script.aculo.us (included with the download)
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Website: http://stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow

Tags: Lightbox Prototype script.aculo.us
Filed under: Browsing, Goodies, MIT License

7 Responses for "Lightbox That Displays Any Media: LightWindow"

insic2,0 August 5th, 2008 at 12:29 am
as expected lightbox with flash player, flv player, any media player doesnt work in IE6, but im not sure how many people still using IE6 today.

Raul Riera August 5th, 2008 at 8:48 am
You will be surprised by the amount. Using Google Analytics (or any similar software will tell you) on my sites its 49% of the visitors

Mike August 5th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Wow. Only a year after jQuery Thickbox.

Don Wilson August 5th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I use LightView (http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/) that has done the same thing for quite a long time. The developer even added changes to his script by my request (general request, nothing too specific). Couldn’t ask for a better resource.

John August 5th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
@Mike - this has actually been out for quite some time. I first implemented it about a year ago.

This: http://www.mjijackson.com/shadowbox/ is still much better though. It runs off of multiple .js libraries, so whichever is your favorite… go with it.

Sean Batson August 7th, 2008 at 8:08 am
I’ve tried reproducing this to no success has anyone got a clue. They’re using scriptaculous but the code just doesn’t run on my local server. I’ve been through the javascripts to see if they where being locked down to which they weren’t.

URL to be clone: http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/logicpro/