This article is not finished yet. This is simply a sneak peak.
One of the biggest problems we’ve found from using Lightbox on our Rails applications at work is users becoming confused how to use it. People don’t know to mouse over the left or right side of the image to go left and right. And how can we blame them? It’s not like Lightbox includes anything explanation to the user on how to do that.
So we’ve come up with a solution.
Before
Users have to mouse-over part of the image to navigate to the next image. This is very confusing.
After
Now we quite clearly see the navigation on the screen at all times. Ah, much nicer!
Install it Yourself!
How to install:
- Drop next.gif and previous.gif into your images directory
- Replace lightbox.js with this one
Other Improvements?
If you have created another improvement/modification to Ligthbox, post a comment about what you’ve done!
I’ll be monitoring this preview… because I welcome this logical visual enhanceent of Lightbox’s presentation and would welcome any help in making the modification. THANKS!