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new Lightbox cover scans/images!
I just noticed that the latest additions ("Fragile Tension/Hole to Feed" covers) are set up as a script/Lightbox! Awesome idea! 
So is this something that's going to happen for all releases? I couldn't even imagine redoing the entire site's code...... that would be crazy!
(oh, sorry if this topic was covered somewhere else....  )
[Edited on 12-11-09 by butters]
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Yes, that's really great Lars!!!
JULIEN
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Yes, very nice!
I just tried it myself with a test-page and it is very easy to implement.
I think I will use it for certain things on my site too - construction time again...
Tom
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Yes, very nice.
Wouldn't mind knowing how to do that myself - Tom, could you send me a mail about it if you get time? 
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? Hm, what is that?
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Everything is based on Java-script only.
Check the following link (found it on Wiki) http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/
Read the instructions and download the zip-file (it includes everything that's needed).
This is really very simple to integrate and looks great!
Tom
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Ah thanks, Tom - now I see what you all meant.
It just didn't work on my browser again (is it IE only?). But I almost don't use the discography anyway anymore - so I don't care.
But thanks for the link - maybe something for my own page
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Thomas,
I tried IE, Firefox and Opera browsers - it works everywhere.
Do the samples work on the Lightbox website with your browser?
Did you enable Java-script?
Tom
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Quote: Originally posted by Recoil19  |
Thomas,
I tried IE, Firefox and Opera browsers - it works everywhere.
Do the samples work on the Lightbox website with your browser?
Did you enable Java-script?
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The function itself runs on my opera. It's a really cool feature indeed. It's just the discography that doesn't run. I don't reach the page where the
images are. There are no links in the overview page. See here:
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| Quote: Originally posted by BONG14 | | It's just the discography that doesn't run. I don't reach the page where the images are. There are no links in the overview page. See here:
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Thomas,
I see, but that's a different problem which has nothing to do with the "Lightbox"-feature.
Lightbox is only used for displaying images.
Tom
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Ja, I know I just wanted to remember this problem 
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While Lightbox is nice in many ways there are a few issues with the standard implementation, the most important being:
> There is no option to fit too large images to the screen, i.e if the image is larger than the viewable screen you have to scroll to see all of
it
> The Close button is below the images - not very convenient if the image is larger than the viewable screen
Thankfully, there is a modification that amends this (and adds quite a lot of other functionality), which I can highly recommend. I'm using this on my page (with some customisation), just try it on a 1024x768 resolution which still is very common and you'll see you can zoom in and out of
images. This also implements "click image to close" which is much more convenient than the ordinary solution.
There's a minor fix to be made for full IE7-8 compatibility, if anyone's interested just send me an email and I'll tell about it.
[Edited on 8.3.2010 by Mr Love]
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Love,
thanks for the link.
Well, putting the close button instead of any "prev" or "next" in an image set is not a real improvement in my point of view as this works only for
the first and the last image.
But the Lightbox with scroll bars (website examples) is really nice as this wasn't possible yet with Lightbox 2.0.
I thought of implementing the Lightbox on my website in general but this isn't possible due to other things.
I only use it for the "RECOIL19.NET Features" e.g. Recoil party in Prague in a customized version.
Tom
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| Quote: Originally posted by Recoil19 |
Well, putting the close button instead of any "prev" or "next" in an image set is not a real improvement in my point of view as this works only for
the first and the last image. |
For large image galleries I see your point, but if it's just a few images, as
on my site, I think it's fine. But then you can always choose to keep the regular Close button, which thanks to the "fit image to screen" option will
always be visible. (Then you can of course also hit "Esc" or just click somewhere outside the image window to close it, just as with the standard
Lightbox, but then you've got to know you can actually do that...)
[Edited on 9.3.2010 by Mr Love]
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It seems that the lightbox feature doesn't work with IE 9 anymore.
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Indeed. It works if you click the "Compatibility View" icon though. (Thankfully it still works on my site, which took me forever to customize, just
couldn't be bothered to look for yet another IE issue...)
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