Ever since Awesomebox closed down, I’ve been looking for a YUI-based lightbox script. Looks like I found it in Shadowbox. The best part: it’s completely library agnostic: you can use adapters to run it off any of the big libraries (YUI, jQuery, ext …).

It also aces the "hot lightbox opening animation test." Nice!

And on the side, a libary-agnostic app like this? About time! When are we going to stop seeing a billion different plugins in a billion different libraries and instead see one or two really great plugins that can run anywhere? I guess the limiting factor is the amount of time plugin authors can spend here. Wouldn’t a JavaScript library common architecture be something worthwhile: write it once, follow the plugin standards, and run it anywhere? How about it, library people???

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