Blow up those thumbnails the fancy way with FancyZoom

by Jay Hathaway Aug 2nd 2008

If your site uses thumbnail images, but you're still opening a separate tab or a separate window to show the larger version, you need to see this: FancyZoom is a little bit of Javascript used by Cabel Sasser on both his personal site and the Panic website, to zoom images inline. Cabel describes the effect as "Mac-like," which is about as accurate a description as you can get. It feels like it should be part of Safari, but it works just fine in other browsers, too.

FancyZoom is a more compact alternative to other zooming effects you might be familiar with, like Lightbox or That Thing Apple Uses on Apple.com. It can be added to a site using only 2 lines of HTML, and it doesn't require any additional libraries. You can also use FancyZoom on a text link to an image, instead of a thumbnail, which could definitely come in handy for some blog layouts we've seen.

[via JoshSpear]

Tags: cabel sasser, CabelSasser, FancyZoom, images, Javascript, Panic, thumbnails, zoom

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

josh said 3:04PM on 8-02-2008

I'd have to say this is pretty nice...
Great find downloadsquad (and a continued reason why I visit this site :))

Jash Sayani said 7:20AM on 8-03-2008

This is great ! I love this !!!

Thanks again DownloadSquad !!! :D

alex said 2:00PM on 8-05-2008

This is a great piece of work...
But, any ideas how can i use this on my Blogger blog?
Help??

Alex

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