I really like what Lokesh Dhakar has done with lightbox. I wanted to use..and I did! My personal blog is using it for most of photos in any of my posts (maybe I should create a plugin for Dotclear, the blog system I am using on my personal blog…some time I am so lazy!). It looks nice and it is simple to use. But what? I am not writing an article just to say that right?

My concerns when I looked at the javascript behind were:

1. the code is not Object -Oriented,
2. everything is created within the javascript, I mean, the div tag and all html inside, which make any adaptation for design purpose a little bit tricky,
3. As I mentioned in my previous post, I use a lot Prototype, and there are a lot of things that could be simplify in lightbox with Prototype.

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I am currently working on a small open-source web application (more on this later…) following the so called web 2.0 kind of approach. Like you would expect from a web 2.0 style app, we will soon put online a beta
I decided to use the famous Prototype library and add on top of it script.aculo.us (Prototype based) as well as the brand new event:Selector (Prototype based too). It is simply amazing how powerful and beautiful are those tools, they give me a new pleasure to code in javascript. Thanks to those fantastic creators!

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