Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Big box, little box ,light box, multibox, shadow box, box box box

Just spotted a great article comparing different light box variants.A Lightbox is a combination of css and javascript used to display content within a webpage in a stylish way without having to leave the page (displaying content inline). Generally the background of the website fades away and a box displays the content to the user with an option to close the window an goback to the main webpage. This looks cool and draws the users attention to the content. The article is a matrix showing the underlying frameworks for each implementation, the file size and what it can handle. Looking through Multibox comes out on top with a great look, smooth animation and the most flexible features. Shadowbox also looks very good and is flexible in terms of content it can display although it does not say the size of the files involved with using it.

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