Comments on: Ajaxy Goodness

By: Alhazred

Alhazred — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:18:08 +0000

Hehe, Yeah, I basically did a more sophisticated version of this for a commercial webapp using scriptaculous and prototype. I wrote a whole ‘javascript window manager’ that lets you put up div based ’subwindows’, attach chrome to them, drag and drop them around, etc. It will even manage sub-sub-windows, closing dependent views, etc. You can also tell it to use real windows instead of divs. Overall the concept is pretty cool.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:13:28 +0000

Jeff, I can’t find the javascript files to download. Am I blind? Perhaps you could email them to me, cheers.

By: Jeff Watkins

Jeff Watkins — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:01:59 +0000

Pretaul, excellent catch. When I did a complete redesign recently, I must have left those out. Thanks.

By: Prestaul

Prestaul — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:02:53 +0000

Your forms and text from your dialog are showing up, but no borders, background or overlay… Did you misplace your images?

By: Rajeev Karamchedu

Rajeev Karamchedu — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:24:37 +0000

Jeff

Mucho gracias for this implementation. I have implemented it in my new design I just put it place. Credits are give as well (using the same functionality!)

By: Jeff Watkins

Jeff Watkins — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:50:49 +0000

hungry: do you mean here on the site or on your own?

By: hungry

hungry — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:35:56 +0000

cant quite get this to work.. mmm. very nice looking though..

By: Jeff Watkins

Jeff Watkins — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:16:31 +0000

Felipe, well there's a really easy way to do this: Trap the page load. You're already using Scriptaculous & prototype if you're using my lightbox. So just use a page load handler.

function showLightboxOnLoad(event)
{
    lightbox.load( 'http://example.com/some/lightbox/content' );
}

Event.observe( window, "load", showLightboxOnLoad );

Of course, this will only display the lightbox after all content has been loaded -- every image, every iframe, every thing. There are some tricks you can use to discover when the document has loaded the DOM before loading images and the rest of the content, but I'll leave those for another post.

By: Felipe Pulido

Felipe Pulido — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:41:31 +0000

any info on how i can get my lightbox to load when the page loads?

i've seen a lot of things done with these , but they're all happening when you Click for them...

thanks!