Last week I pushed out some major updates to my most well-known piece of work to date, Shadowbox. This update finally brought version 3 of the code out of beta and into a much more robust and ready state. Overall I’m very happy with the release. It took much longer than I expected (for a lot of different reasons), but the time it took just helped to produce a better product in the end.
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 2 languages (English and Italian), so I need your help. If you would like Shadowbox translated into your native tongue, please translate the following object and send it to me.
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:
A few weeks ago, I was looking for a Lightbox-like script that would allow me to display more than just pictures. In addition to static images, my client required the ability to display various types of movies including QuickTime and SWF. The only script that fit the bill was Lightwindow — a nice piece of work to be sure — but it required the Prototype + Scriptaculous combo and I was already using YUI.