Comments on: Thickbox vs. Lightbox

By: Flipflops

Flipflops — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:50:02 +0000

p.s. Thanks to Dan (http://www.darfuria.com) for pointing me towards Thickbox.

By: Darfuria

Darfuria — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:42:19 +0000

Lightbox is nice in the way it animates, although that is a little jerky, instead of smooth. It also takes longer to load, and the back/forward buttons are horrible.

With Thickbox, the background isn’t covering the whole page in Firefox. I had the bug as well.

I think the CSS has to be changed to this for it to work:

#TB_overlay {
position: absolute;
z-index:100;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
background-color:#000;
filter:alpha(opacity=60);
-moz-opacity: 0.6;
opacity: 0.6;
min-height:100%;
height: auto;
_height: 100%;
}

By: Flipflops

Flipflops — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:41:46 +0000

You’re absolutely right - I’ve had to do that in my plugin. In this case to make it fair I am just trying to use the code out of the box.

By: Darfuria

Darfuria — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:53:55 +0000

Thickbox it is, then. Though, I would have gone with that in the first place, anyway.

Ah, if only to learn Javascript and use Jquery’s awesomeness, along with lots of other crazy Ajax things.

Do you know why they happened to call Java “Java” and Javascript “Javascript”? There must be some relation between the two for them to have similar names, no?

By: Flipflops

Flipflops — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:59:42 +0000

Java is an Object Oriented Programming (OOP) language created by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems. JavaScript was created by the fine people at Netscape. JavaScript is a distant cousin of Java. It is also an OOP language. Many of their programming structures are similar. However, JavaScript contains a much smaller and simpler set of commands than does Java.

I just whipped this from HTML goodies… here is the rest (it was top of the list on google)

By: Darfuria

Darfuria — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:21:14 +0000

Ah, cool. It’s irritating that they have similar names, because in a conversation about programming, one often likes to shorten termonology as much as possible. Nobody says hyper text markup language, it’s just HTML… But we can’t shorten Javascript to Java, because that would be wrong. Arrghh!

By: Yuletide

Yuletide — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:21:55 +0000

Darfuria: So we say JS for javascript and Java for Java

By: Luyen Dao

Luyen Dao — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:07:03 +0000

In the latest version of lightbox, there are more features such as iframe support, inline content, gallery/slideshow, and I think ajax as well, although i’m not sure how ajax is related directly to lightbox or thickbox, since it’s more on the presentation layer, but feel free to clarify this!