Lightbox: get rid of Bootstrap-lightbox

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Source code of the http://projects.biodiversity.be/openuprbins/ website.

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Lightbox: get rid of Bootstrap-lightbox #22

Open niconoe opened 10 years ago

niconoe commented 10 years ago

The lightbox is currently using http://www.jasonbutz.info/bootstrap-lightbox/, which has recently proved to be a real pain to work with, for example:

Impossible to make the last version working (Bootstrap version issues?)
Incomplete documentation
(sometimes) strange positioning on the lightbox
Poor API, with no manual/advanced control on size, positioning, ...

For all these reasons it would make more sense and would make our life easier to replace this with a more flexible lightbox mechanism, ideally not tied to Bootsrap.

niconoe commented 10 years ago

Requirements for the replacement:

Not tied to bootstrap (more choice, less risk of compatibility issues)
Allow to display a full div, not only image
JS API to open/close via code
Good documentation
Configurable for code, positioning...
If possible implement Close button (if we no we'll implement manually as it is now)
Implement Next/Prev button tied to a callback (if we no we'll implement manually as it is now)

niconoe commented 10 years ago

Candidates:

Fancybox 2 seems pretty good: http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/ ! CC-NC License...
~~http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/~~ (and lightbox v1) seems limited to image content
Colorbox may also be decent (and really open source!), worth exploring