I think I have just found the ultimate lightbox.  Light Window 2.0.  I have already blogged 2 articles on this type of Light Box technology.. but I just cannot resist the urge to write a little bit more on the topic. The old articles are:

LiteBox OffSprings - Slimbox, ThickBox, GreyBox and LyteBox
Image Rendering with LiteBox

Well, in terms of physical appearance, it looks pretty similar to the good old-fashion ones and their deviants.  What really rocks is that the Light Window supports a whole range of media from Quicktime Movie to SWF to PDFs…  You just got to check it out LightWindow.

If you look at the picture on the left, you will realise that it has a white border with a shadow.  Well, was digging around some of the open source tools when I realised that this effect can be generated via javascript alone!

If you are keen to check out how it is done, click here.

Ever an easy way to showcase your images in an enlarged view?  Need an easy way to programmatically come out with a photo gallery that looks cool, but absolutely suck in Flash skills?

Well, LiteBox is here to help!  It is clean, easy to use, light weight and looks really good.  Fantastic for rendering image based galleries.  Feel free to check out their official link here.

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