Lightbox

weblog Friday, May 26th, 2006

 

After spotting the awesomeness that is Lightbox 2 online, I thought, I should get me some of that for the games screenshots on atypicalreview. And I installed it, and it was good. Or rather, it was good on everything but PC Firefox (except at my work, where PC Firefox could handle it). I went through many amusing days of saying to Andy — look at this! and having him ask What? When I click, it just loads the image by itself.

And then I thought; this stuff would be awesome for our canada pictures too. So here’s the relaunch of Andy’s fantastic journal of our travels at the end of 2003 and the beginning of 2004.

And at around this time, I discovered that PC Firefox seems to prefer it if you load the javascript for our stats program, Mint, first, and then the three Lightbox javascripts after that. Amusingly, IE started complaining at that point that it liked things the other way. So I’ve had to do a few IE tests to get things in the right order.

Of course, being a bit of a Javascript n00b, I have absolutely no idea why it’s doing this — but at least it’s fixed. The Canada Gallery should work on both IE and PC Firefox (and everything else). The Warrior Within screenshots might not work in IE at time of writing. Or, neither of them might be working for you at all. Let me know if there are any issues. Except for there being no thumbnails for any other game reviews save the one I sent you to. I know about that one.

[update: I switched from Lightbox to Litebox. The difference is subtle but speedy. I also discovered that I was an idiot; there was a mint extension called outclicks causing the javascript issues. It’s since been updated to fix such issues.]

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5 Responses to “Lightbox”


  1. ben
    May 25th, 2006 at 9:47 pm

    it seems to work on IE6 here, just that i am confined to dialup so its terribly slow


  2. Tom
    May 25th, 2006 at 9:58 pm

    Poor old Ben. No one should have to suffer dial up in this day and age. I think they’re setting up some sort of charity to support people like you. The problem isn’t too widespread, luckily; in many African countries, almost no one at all has dial up, thank the Lord.


  3. hayko
    June 4th, 2006 at 6:39 pm

    I’m not on dialup but it’s still horribly slow and horrible. It takes ages to react at all, and then the loading…Why not just make a normal gallery? Why do people don’t like normal galleries? The world comes to an end here and now.


  4. Tom
    June 4th, 2006 at 6:58 pm

    I’m surprised that it’s horribly slow and horrible if you’re not on dialup. The loading should take exactly the same time it does to load the image. When does it take ages to react?

    This saves a bit of time in that you see all the thumbnails on one page and can choose which thing to look at. It’s faster than loading an entirely new page with the picture in the middle, or at least, if it isn’t, there’s something funny going on.


  5. Tom
    June 4th, 2006 at 9:02 pm

    Although, I suppose we could split some of the sections up amongst different pages. Loading all of the thumbnails does take time.

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