Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#5434 accepted enhancement
Lightbox effect for images
| Reported by: | Saksham Agrawal | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | graphic design/interface | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Parent Tickets: |
Description
Adding lightbox effect for images would be a good enhancement.
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Change History (10)
comment:1 by , 8 years ago
comment:2 by , 8 years ago
It could be indeed be quite good. What approach are you thinking to adding it?
(Also, is this a duplicate of #574 or are they different?)
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Basically using Javascript or Jquery, when a user clicks on the image, create a box in the middle of the window where the image is displayed and changing the opacity of all the things in the backdrop. I think this will be the most easiest approach.
Reg #574:
I think spaetz is suggesting that we also add slideshow to the lightbox effect (Eg. Facebook image slideshow). I think this will be a good enhancement after lightbox effect is added. But we would need to give it a little thought as a slideshow is already there. So if the user uses the lightbox slideshow, then what image will be displayed (in the backdrop) when the user ends the lightbox effect
by , 8 years ago
| Attachment: | 0005-0001-Fix-for-issue-5434-Lightbox-effect-for-images.patch added |
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comment:6 by , 8 years ago
| Status: | new → review |
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comment:7 by , 6 years ago
| Status: | review → accepted |
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I finally had a chance to try this out. It's a pretty neat idea, but it needs some more polishing. Here are some problems I noticed.
- It doesn't preserve the aspect ratio of the image, so some pictures get stretched weird in lightbox mode. Try this with a portrait image to see what I mean.
- Sometimes it's slow to load the lightbox. I've tried this on two different installations of MediaGoblin on two different servers with the same results.
- I don't see any way to see the image full-size when the lightbox is active. Without the lightbox, I can click on an image to zoom in full size. With the lightbox, I can't zoom into large images unless I right-click to open in a new tab.
- It's not intuitive how to exit the lightbox. I expected the Escape key would exit, but I had to click outside the lightbox to return to normal view.
comment:9 by , 3 years ago
Closing duplicate #5606.
We have some code for a lightbox popup that was added, but doesn't seem to have ever been hooked up:
mediagoblin/static/js/lightbox.js
We should probably hook it up or just delete it - no point having unused code laying around.
I would like to work on this enhancement