Shadowbox Plugin
Hands down, Shadowbox is my favorite javascript lightbox. Not only does it make creating image galleries a snap, but it can also make displaying Flash videos easy, Quicktime, AVI, and WMV files are all done with a simple hyperlink.
David Freerksen created the original Mango Blog plugin, and I do not wish to take credit for his work. The Shadowbox3a plugin is really just a re-skining of the original shadowbox plugin by David. So even though I love the shadowbox plugin, I could not find a place in my heart for it with it's original skin. I felt the original skin is a usability disaster.
Below is a side by side comparison between the original shadowbox and the 3a version. It's a very small difference but it has spared me hours trying to defend it's very existence to my superiors. Because of this one change, I no longer receive phone calls from people saying the don't understand how to get back to the main page where they just came from. Just goes to show that just because it makes sense to you and I It may not make sence to those that are less savvy
Since I already modified the Shadowbox plugin, and because I am releasing a photo gallery plugin later this month. I wanted to post my modified plugin in case any of you also hate the original shadowbox skin.
Download The Plugin
- Plugin version:
- 1.1
- Last Updated:
- 2009-07-21
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/shadowbox3a.zip
Version History
- Version 1.1 – Updated plugin to fix error where plugin would not save changes made in the admin.
Tags: Freebies · Mango Blog · Plugins
1 comments so far ↓
Instead of using images, another idea is to get inside each of the 31 language files and make the text for next, prev, and close. Then of course you have to get into shadowbox.js and make it pull the text out of the language file. That's a lot of work. I'll request that as a feature update for the next version of Shadowbox that comes out instead :)
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