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These things break the web by making it impossible for me to send a link pointing at the lightboxed content to a friend.
by philjackson 14y ago
These things break the web by making it impossible for me to send a link pointing at the lightboxed content to a friend.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoAnd there's no reason that this has to be the case either. The JavaScript history API could be used to push unique URLs into the address bar on each image view.
- lean 14y agojQuery tools has a product that does just that: http://jquerytools.org/demos/tabs/ajax-history.html http://jquerytools.org/demos/tabs/ajax-history.html
- benhomie 14y agoYou can have a unique link for the lightbox simply by using a query string to automatically launch the lightbox.
- lywald 14y agoI think he means we can't even Right click -> Copy Image URL, at least not in Chrome So there's no way to access the raw image without searching in source code (unless I'm missing something). In any case that's what I don't really like about it.
- calinet6 14y agoAlso has broken usability: the next/prev arrows move underneath my cursor based on the size of the image. So many lightboxes get this wrong. I don't get what's so hard. Keep the main UI in one place.
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