Which is the best lightbox clone for jQuery ?

January 2, 2009 by admin · 10 Comments
Filed under: Galleries, jQuery 

Lightbox is a script made by Lokesh Dhakar which is one of the most popular way for showing images or image galleries. The original lightbox script was written using prototype and script aculous javascript libraries. So the main problem is, we need to include these two libraries (almost 100 KB) again even if we’re using jQuery. Certainly, this is not the best way. Thank fully, some programmers realized the situation and made the clones using jQuery. The effects and functionality are almost similar to lightbox but the only difference is, it uses jQuery library instead of prototype. The size of a compressed jQuery library is only 25KB.

Here, I am reviewing three of the lightbox clones. Read more