Shadowbox Media Viewer
Version
4.0 (last update on Jan 10, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
30
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
1 August 2009
Uses Updater?
- Yes
Although Shadowbox can be used in standalone mode, it's just as easy to use Shadowbox with your JavaScript library of choice for a given project. Shadowbox comes bundled with adapters for the following JavaScript frameworks:
* Prototype
* jQuery
* MooTools (requires 1.2 Core)
* Dojo Toolkit
* Yahoo! User Interface Library (requires yahoo-dom-event.js)
* Ext (requires ext-core.js)
Shadowbox supports many different media formats via the Flash, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player browser plugins. Windows media files are supported on the Mac via the Flip4Mac QuickTime plugin.
Shadowbox includes many front-end languages such as Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German (Swiss), German, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Burmese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional).
The simplest way to tell Shadowbox which links you want it to open is to add a rel="shadowbox" (or rel="lightbox") attribute to each link. See the documentation for full usage instructions.
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Fairly good and easy product to use. Works out of box, as long as you don't have any IE6 users. The 3.0 beta version has no issues with IE6 but the RC1 version bombs IE6 with an operation aborted. RC1 will load with IE6 if J! core is set to no SEF. RC1 will work with some other SEF products active in J! with the core SEF plugin so I am guessing its a pathing translation problem.
Since 3.0.2 shadowbox.js is out hopefully they are working on their new version getting the IE6 issue fixed. Unfortunately there are still IE6 users out there.
Other than this issue, I like the ease of use and the inline override/configuration options. This is the first shadowbox plugin that allowed me to 'drag' a very large picture rather than shrinking it making it unreadable. Can't wait to the GA version (but it need to work with all browsers)!!
Since 3.0.2 shadowbox.js is out hopefully they are working on their new version getting the IE6 issue fixed. Unfortunately there are still IE6 users out there.
Other than this issue, I like the ease of use and the inline override/configuration options. This is the first shadowbox plugin that allowed me to 'drag' a very large picture rather than shrinking it making it unreadable. Can't wait to the GA version (but it need to work with all browsers)!!
Owner's reply
Upgraded to v3.0.3 which should fix IE6 problems.
I have used shadows.js before so this is very easy for me to pick it up in joomla.
This is wondeful tools and gives the users freedom to modify it.
This is the most simple gallery module I've ever seen.
However the it is not easy for the user who don't know the HTML to use and it takes times for adding lots of pictures.
Another question if I enable the module, I found it will load the .js and .css files when I open the index pages. Have you tested how large it will be for I don't want to my index page become slow.
This is wondeful tools and gives the users freedom to modify it.
This is the most simple gallery module I've ever seen.
However the it is not easy for the user who don't know the HTML to use and it takes times for adding lots of pictures.
Another question if I enable the module, I found it will load the .js and .css files when I open the index pages. Have you tested how large it will be for I don't want to my index page become slow.
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