Nick has just released Lightview (another neat project) to the public. Lightview allows you to augment your images. It provides an excellent way of creating a slideshow or simply showing a large version of a thumbnail without resorting to popups. Effects are used to create very appealing slideshows and image galleries.
From the Lightview project site:
- Clean: Designed to compliment your images.
- Fast: Images and their neighbours are preloaded.
- Easy to customize: You don’t even have to know CSS.
- Rounded: Adjustable rounded corners, without PNGs.
- Smart resizing: Images will always fit on your screen.
- Slideshow: One button slideshow.
- Effects: Using Scriptaculous.
- Works on all modern browsers
Lightview is similar to Lightbox 2 and both are built with Prototype and Scriptaculous. However, there are a few differences I noticed:
- The morphing effect that Lightview uses is a refreshing change (probably because I have seen the Lightbox effects too many times!).
- Lightview allows you to customise many of the visual aspects of the viewer programatically. For example, the background colour and corner radius.
- Lightview supports a customisable slideshow option which Lightbox lacks.
- Lightview uses the caption attribute of the
<a>
tag to give images a caption. This attribute is not valid XHTML and thus its usage will produce invalid markup. I would suggest using a convention similar to that used by MooTools Tips:title="image title :: caption"
- Lightbox has been around for a while and is well tested and proven.
Personally I like the look of Lightview but I wouldn’t use it because I don’t like invalid markup!
If you are interested in something similar for the MooTools framework, try Slimbox.
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