Michael’s Blog

Well I was bored waiting for my Garry’s Mod debugging script was working so I finished off some updates for the site… I’ve said bye bye to light box and hello to my image script that is much better! It uses mootools and is really lightweight.

• It’s ready to launch as soon as the document is ready. This means that you don’t have to wait for all images of the page to be loaded before clicking on a link launching the effect.
• The left and right arrow keys can be used to navigate through images, and the ESC key can be used to close the image
• The dark background overlay can be clicked anywhere to close the image, even on the parts located on the left and right of the image.
• The script is much more robust; for example you can try to start-stop the effect very quickly to interrupt the animation then resume it and you won’t notice any bug like in the original Lightbox where sometimes the animation stops or the captions are wrongly sized.
• The script temporary hides flash animations and other embedded videos while it is open to avoid display bugs in some browsers.

I will post more about the updates in a sec… Garry’s Mod will be ready in like 5 minutes…