Comments on: FancyBox – Fancy image zooming tool

By: Tomislav Bilic

Tomislav Bilic — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:16:43 +0000

Hey Shaun,

jQuery is very demanding with the JS requirements. Since Magento is built upon Prototype, the file burden of including both libraries are better to be avoided in our opinion.

By: shaun butler

shaun butler — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:50:54 +0000

Hi Tomislav –

I know this thread is a long time ago!

However I came across it when trying to find how to incorporate FancyBox into Magento-
Is there a reason would you advise against using a jQuery dependant lightbox, does it slow it down?

Thanks in advance-
Shaun

By: Tomislav Bilic

Tomislav Bilic — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:50:21 +0000

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.

By: Radi

Radi — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:01:06 +0000

Hello,

is there any tutorial to plug in The FanyBox in Magento?

Thank you for your answer.

Radi

By: Tomislav Bilic

Tomislav Bilic — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:25:57 +0000

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!

By: Hrvoje Markovic

Hrvoje Markovic — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:49:11 +0000

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.