Don’t worry. I’m not dead…yet. It has been a crazy couple of months since I released the first version of Shadowbox. If you’re wondering what I’ve been up to, here’s a short list:

• Graduated college
• Took a week-long vacation to Hawai’i
• Ate way too many Mauna Loa’s
• Moved
• Started a new job

I’m pretty sure that at least 3 of the above qualify as major life-altering events, so please excuse me for not having released a major update to Shadowbox in the past few months. ;) I’m back now.

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Hello all! It has been quite a while since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve been spending most of my free time improving Shadowbox instead of writing new blog material.

Due to popular demand, the next version of Shadowbox will have much improved i18n support (among other improvements). However, unfortunately I’m only fluent in 1.5 languages (English and some Italian), so I need your help. If you would like Shadowbox translated into your native tongue, please translate the following object and post it here or send it to me.

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This morning, I released version 1.0 of Shadowbox. In its first month, the beta was downloaded over 15,000 times! I really appreciate the amount of interest the JavaScript community has shown in this project. I’m working hard to make sure that it’s a quality piece of code, and I hope you enjoy it. The 1.0 version includes the following feature enhancements over the previous betas:

• Extensive and fully documented JavaScript API
• Compatibility with the original Lightbox HTML markup
• Support for image maps
• Numerous other options and bug fixes

If you have any questions about how to use Shadowbox for your project, please ask them in the support forum.

More information here.

It’s been difficult to keep the discussion threads organized here on my blog, so I opened up a forum with the nice folks at Nabble. Please post any questions or difficulties that you’re having with Shadowbox in that venue.

You can find it here.

Wow. One evening, about three weeks ago, I stayed up late working on a little JavaScript app called Shadowbox that I had been working on for several weeks. Before I went to bed, I shot off an email to the jQuery mailing list and made a quick post in the Ext.js forums just to see if anybody else would be interested in using it.

Little did I know.

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