From: Evelina Slatineanu [mailto:evelyne24@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM
To: 'XWiki Developers'
Subject: Lightbox proposals

Hello all,

Due to the fact that we want to make the lightbox a standard feature for xwiki and the current lightbox used for Users & Groups management is not quite complete (and the code needs to be cleaned a little bit), I was thinking that we need a “multi-purpose” lightbox that could support Ajax but still work fine without it (which is not the case of the current one), that could load media files (for instance .swf, quicktime movies etc), .pdf, pages containing frames, inline content (no Ajax) etc.  Therefore we would need a nicer lightbox.

So, there are 2 proposals from me:

1. To spend some time improving the current lightbox to support all the above (which will mean practically re-writing it FROM SCRATCH and will take some time – one, two weeks or more, depending of my time, as my priority now is Chronopolys)

2. Use one of the existing lightboxes that I found on the Internet (customized for xwiki), like:

- LightWindow (using prototype and scriptaculous), which is quite complete  and MIT – licenced

http://www.wildbit.com/labs/modalbox/

- A lightbox based on yui library (which is already in the albatross and probably will remain…is quite  a nice library imo), like the one below, which has the nice feature of being “movable”:

http://test.thecodecentral.com/demos/lightboxrev/lightbox.html

- ModalBox, another lightbox using prototype + scriptaculous, which looks nice but I am not sure about the licence

http://test.thecodecentral.com/demos/lightboxrev/lightbox.html

             and there are more out there on the web :P

Personaly, I think the one with most features is LightWindow, but that would mean to keep scriptaculous framework …

So, I would like your opinions on this matter (ideas, suggestions, maybe some other lightbox features you would like to have as standard in xwiki etc)

Thanks,

Evelina