Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform Lightbox-like media viewer which supports all the commonly used media types like images, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Flash, Flash video, and even external web pages.
Shadowbox can be used easily with the popular JavaScript frameworks as it already has adapters for jQuery, Prototype + Scriptaculous, Ext.js & Yahoo! User Interface Library.
Flash Video is supported via JW FLV Player. Although many types of video are supported, for compatibilty reasons, Shadowbox advises that Flash Video to be used.
Requirements: No Requirements Compatibility: All Major Browsers & JavaScript Frameworks
The famous Lightbox type information windows are very usable in many cases like showing alerts, giving tips to users, showing media content inside them & many more.
jqModal is also a lightweight window plugin written for jQuery which improves & makes easier the use of windows.
Features:
Inline or remote (ajax/iframe) Window Content.
Modal-in-modal and Multiple Independent Modal support
Tailor behavior "on-the-fly" with easy to understand parameters and callbacks
DOM element events are preserved, remote (ajax) javascript is evaluated
Translator/i18n friendly; no hardcoded English strings
Designer Friendly; abstracted HTML, CSS, and Javascript
Support for Drag’n'Drop + Resizing
Extendable through callbacks to make anything (gallery slideshows, video-conferencing, etc.) possible
Videobox is a 6kb script, which shows your videos in the page with an overlay. It was inspired from Lightbox.v2 and uses some of the Slimbox’s code. It’s written for the wonderful mootools library. And used swfobject to embed flash.