Comments on: Lightbox — Quick, Pretty Screenshot Previews

By: Leveraging OSS As A Software Developer « MicroISV on a Shoestring

Leveraging OSS As A Software Developer « MicroISV on a Shoestring — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:43:43 +0000

[...] my bag. As it turns out, Lightbox Gone Wild (a variant of the Lightbox project which I’ve previously used to business-enhancing effect) took this from several days of work to about five minutes of [...]

By: Bingo Cards On Rails « MicroISV on a Shoestring

Bingo Cards On Rails « MicroISV on a Shoestring — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:57:33 +0000

[...] who so much as glance at the page click on it. When they click on it, the screenshot expands in a Lightbox [...]

By: Simple Enhancement To Lightbox « MicroISV on a Shoestring

Simple Enhancement To Lightbox « MicroISV on a Shoestring — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:58:11 +0000

[...] Enhancement To Lightbox I posted recently about how to use Lightbox to make your web site prettier and more useable, and someone pointed out [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:16:01 +0000

Because my users are not very sophisticated and it is not obvious to them how to dismiss the interstitial. Many of them will try clicking somewhere, anywhere. That works for Lightbox 1 but not for 2.

By: Magnus J

Magnus J — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:59:00 +0000

I just started to use Lightbox2 before I read your post.
Exactly why is it a “a usability nightmare.” ?
/M

By: David Foskey

David Foskey — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:07:59 +0000

Patrick, using IE6, W2K, slow connection (kids have blown my quota) took several (= too many) seconds to load, dark grey background (ie your screen not visible). Used x top right to return to your screen rather than back button. Definitely thumbs down.

Cheers, David

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:21:15 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I have no clue exactly WHAT was causing that, but after 15 minutes of playing around it turns out that if you move lightbox.css into the main CSS file everything clears up.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:34:03 +0000

Patrick, The background doesn’t grey-out on your site when I click a screen shot. It shows the pic alright, but the fully visible background adds lots of clutter and confusion IMO. I’m using FF1.5, WinXP. Cheers, Oliver.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:24:31 +0000

I prefer my own script personally (http://www.mophy.com/accents/screenshots.htm)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:35:58 +0000

I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that was probably caused by you hitting it before the page was totally loaded. Thats quirky behavior, though, and I will try to see what I need to do to correct it. Thanks for the report.