Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] Lightbox

[WEBER P. <Pat...@co...>]

Hi all,

On Sunday 16 March 2008 19:03:56 Sylvie Greverend wrote:
> If fact, the lightbox librairy was missing - Thanks to Nyloth
> cvs co _lightbox to have it working
> - still some problem with this lib ans small image
> ... So perhaps luci idea is the beast

As explained to Sylvie yesterday, the lightbox feature is ok but not
bundled with the main TikiWiki CVS modules. The reason was that we were
not sure that the license was fully LGPL compatible. The author was
contacted and he agreed to think about a dual licensing, but there is no
news from him yet.

So, there is no urgency, but since shadowbox (proposed by Luci) and some
other solutions seems better, I'm also in favor of changing this lib.

Thickbox was also proposed before, just after lightbox was commited. I
looked at both thickbox and shadowbox and I'm not completely convinced
by shadowbox. In fact, it seems prettier and a bit more advanced for
images slideshow and resize. But thickbox is able to do quite similar
effects and seems to be more versatile (could be used for login box or
other html forms, to replace overbox, etc.). This is what I saw just
quickly, maybe thickbox can too but it's simply not in the demo.

So, Luci, could you just have a look at Thickbox and make your opinion
about it ? I also propose my help on changing lightbox, since I've done
the first integration which could be easily changed to a new lib and
because I'm also intereseted in using this in file galleries (the
long-term plan is to merge image and file galleries into a media
gallery).

Cheers,
Nyloth