Fancybox is a powerful, lightweight jQuery based lightbox script that offers developers an impressive variety of content display options. I’ve used this script many times in the past (including my portfolio) and have never run into any limitations in terms of functionality until a recent project required many lightboxes with varying sizes. (more…)
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- I am a front-end designer and open source developer based in Chicago. I like to write about CSS, jQuery, PHP, Codeigniter, Interface design, fancy food and photography. more »
In early 2009, I experimented with XML based iPhone / Safari Mobile web app which used jQuery to parse and traverse multiple levels of nodes in an XML file and display the data. While that project never panned out, the core code has become quite useful in a number of professional and personal projects. This tutorial provides working examples and demonstrates the concept of parsing and traversing an XML file with jQuery using AJAX. (more…)
JavaScript Frameworks have gained wide acceptance among developers since the "Web 2.0" movement and have, in many ways, changed how we use the web. One of the greatest outcomes of this has been the reduction in external popup windows in favor of unobtrusive, JavaScript-based "Modal Window" and "Lightbox" solutions. At work, clients frequently ask us to incorporate content and image overlay solutions into their projects and after experimenting with, and customizing a wide variety of different scripts, I decided to write a comparison of several of the most popular Light Box solutions. (more…)
