Comments on: Litebox 1.0 Released

By: derek

derek — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:44:30 +0000

The removeDuplicates method is broken. It only removes dups if they were adjacent. Here is a fix.

Array.prototype.removeDuplicates = function () {
for(i = 0; i < this.length; i++){
for(j = i+1; j < this.length; j++){
if(this[i][0] == this[j][0]){
this.splice(j--,1);
}
}
}
}

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:26:00 +0000

Very nice! Biggest pro: great performance compared to Lightbox on this terrible slow PC I’m using at this location.

Big question for me now: how can I include HTML (links to external websites) in the picture “window” that opens?

And: any future plans to maintain this?

Thanks anyway, keep up the good work!

By: Alan Orozco

Alan Orozco — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:10:22 +0000

No comments on this? Wow.

I just wanted to know if you had plans to port Litebox to mootools…. Please :)

By: marco ziero

marco ziero — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:48:59 +0000

another thing: CMotion Image Gallery works with LightBox v.2, but it doesn’t work with LiteBox…could you help me?
regards

marco from italy

By: marco ziero

marco ziero — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:47:21 +0000

hello, this is marco from italy.
i have got a problem, so i though to ask you if you could help me.
in my web site i tried to use your plugin Litebox with CMotion Image Gallery javascript (you can find it here: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/cmotiongallery.htm), but together they don’t work.
unluckly, i don’t know javascript language, so i really don’t know what to do…could you help me? how can i make them work together?
thanks anyway

marco from italy

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:50:04 +0000

Out of curiosity what happend to nightbox with the navigation on the sides?

By: Jeremy Reid

Jeremy Reid — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:14:13 +0000

Just had to say thanks. I love this script. Great job making it tight and clean.

By: ia

ia — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:50:23 +0000

hi, i was wondering: is it possible to use this with other scripts that use body onload=’…’? i tried it with the addLoadEvent function but it doesn’t seem to be working. any suggestions?

i’d really like to use this version because it is a lot smaller. :D

By: Josh Rencher

Josh Rencher — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:38:30 +0000

Hey Tyler. I just stumbled across Litebox today, and I’m very interested. I’ve been thinking of using LightBox 2.0, but I like the idea of your streamlined version. My #1 concern is cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility. Are there any compatibility issues that you’re aware of? Any quirks in behavior from one browser/platform to another? Thanks in advance for your help! -JOSH

By: Dan B

Dan B — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:59:33 +0000

LiteBox is a great idea in theory but unfortunately it haemorrhage’s a lot of memory when used in Internet Explorer. If you open the demo page – http://doknowevil.net/litebox/ – in IE6 and then open Windows Task Manager and monitor memory you will see that each time you reload the page it leaks around 2MB of memory. I noticed this when developing a page using LiteBox and found IE using over 350MB of RAM!

I’m not sure which of the javascript libraries is responsible for this. However, memory leaks using javascript and IE are well documented:
http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/closures.html#clMem
http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/leakpatterns.asp
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/02/javascript_memo.html

Hope those help you fix what is otherwise a very good idea! :)