Litebox: Lightbox without the bloat

Filed under: Photo

Litebox: Lightbox without the bloat

by Jordan Running Jul 5th 2006

You may or may not be familiar with Lightbox, a handy JavaScript library that lets you create very slick interactive image galleries very easily with plain old HTML and a little elbow grease. Lightbox is great, but not exactly svelte, weighing in at just over 100kb not including images. If that's a little hefty for your taste, check out Litebox, a drop-in replacement for Lightbox that looks like it and works like it but weighs in at less than 30kb. It pulls it off by swapping in the lightweight moo.fx which creates the same effects as Lightbox has but at a lower price. Like the original Lightbox, Litebox is free and easy to set up.

Tags: javascript, lightbox, litebox, moo.fx, photo, photos, prototype

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

proestilo said 2:46PM on 7-07-2006

I like it. I always tought Lightbox could be seriously optimized.

Featured Time Waster

Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

View more Time Wasters