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Ahmed Farooq saw my posts about Ligthbox and ThickBox image displaying solutions and send me an email that he develops something similar which is definitely worth mentioning.

iBox weights just 11 kb and supports image displaying and various other types of content, like HTML code. It has got a few useful configuration options that you can embed directly into the links. One big advantage is that the script is self-contained, so it would not conflict with other libraries you might include.

So if you want to say goodbye to the old school JavaScript pop-up windows, you have plenty of alternatives to choose from. Lightbox started it all, ThickBox is my personal favorite and iBox has the potential to outrun them both. Try them all and choose one that best suits your project.

I found even better solution for displaying images than Lightbox. It’s called ThickBox, it’s build on jQuery library, together they have only 27 Kb and does a few things that Lightbox can’t. It automaticaly resizes the image based on the resolution, can display any HTML content, so it can be used not just for images. All around it’s much better.

The jQuery library alone looks promising. It’s very small and the idea behind looks fun. I am planning to use it on one of my AJAX projects. I’ll report my experiences with it.

Lightbox is an incretibly cool image viewing JavaScript solution. It works accross all popular modern browsers and degrades nicely when JS is turned off. So I implemented it here on my blog. Click the image to test it out.