iBox
Ahmed at iBegin has created an alternative to the Lightbox, ThickBox and Greybox techniques for presenting images and other elements in a <div> over a shaded background. The original Lightbox code, which we profiled on Monkey Bites some moons ago, uses an external JavaScript library, as do ThickBox and Greybox.
So, Ahmed decided that he wanted a presentation environment that didn’t rely on external libraries like Prototype or jQuery, looked nice even with JavaScript turned off and provided support for loading images, login forms and even external HTML pages. The result is iBox, a tidy 11kb of code (compared to 20kb and upwards for other methods) that accomplishes all of these things and still won’t break on sites that use external libraries. Check out his demo to see some flashy tricks. Then turn off JavaScript in your browser and try again.
Ahmed has released iBox under the MIT Open Source license, so it’s free to download and use. Grab it at the bottom of his blog post. There’s also an informal bug tracking forum happening in the comments.
