The Great Lightbox Debate

Wow, who knew a little Javascript would garner so much attention. Yesterday, Ryan over at 37signals.com shared his lack of interest for Lightbox. For those of you not familiar with Lightbox, it is effectively a method to view a larger rendition of an image on a webpage where the background of the page becomes near black, while the image itself appears to be in a pop-up window. Ryan's post indicated that he believes that context is lost when this new image supersedes the page -- effectively all style, and context of the site is lost. Well, I disagree when it comes to presenting photography.



The screen shot above illustrates the Lightbox affect -- a near black background with the image enlarged and brought front and center.
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Tags: 37signals, user interface