FancyBox - Fancy image zooming tool
Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Tools @ 4th JUN 2008
There are many Lightbox clones this days. Some are fancier, some are lighter, some use jQuery, some do not. In this wast set of options, I found one I think I will prefer from today: FancyBox - fancy image zooming tool
It is based on jQuery and is a cool alternative to existing solutions. Here are some features:
- Automatically scales large images to fit in window
- Adds a nice drop shadow under the zoomed item
- Groups related items and adds navigation through them (uses preloading)
- Can display images, inline and iframed content
- Customizable through settings and CSS
Other Lightbox alternatives I found are:
- Lightview
- prettyPhoto
- Slimbox
- Highslide
- LightWindow
- Thickbox
- and many more; full comparison can be found at The Lightbox Clones Matrix
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A different approach, but I don’t think it’d work well on all sites (like Lightbox does) because it doesn’t darken the rest of the page, just adds a small dropshadow, and this won’t make enough contrast between certain images and webpages.
One of my favorite lightbox clones is Thickbox, except I can’t remember at the moment why I chose Lightbox over it on my site.
Hi. You are correct about the contrast, but I believe that can be sorted custom via CSS. I’ll give it a try in the next few days and see how it goes. Btw. Thanks for Thickbox note. I forgot about it although I have used it before. I added it to the list now!
Hello,
is there any tutorial to plug in The FanyBox in Magento?
Thank you for your answer.
Radi
Hi Radi,
Sorry for late reply. I didn’t notice your question before. Although FancyBox looks great, it isn’t the best solution for Magento as it is based on jQuery framework. It is better that you try to find some prototype based zooming tool.
Btw. I encountered one similar looking once called FancyZoom: http://www.cabel.name/2008/02/fancyzoom-10.html This one doesn’t not require any library for using.