Hi Miguel, Thank you for your reply. You pointed out very well the advantages but also the inconveniences that PW might have. This was my first choice too, but then I had the same thoughts as you: maybe we need something not so complex, but to fit best in xwiki, in terms of usage and definitely to be cross-browser and light. So, now my first choice would be ModalBox and then Prototype Window. I actually integrated PW in my local copy of XE, and played with it a little, I should test IE7 and Opera to see how's doing. Still, we need more feedback on this. Thanks, Evelina -----Original Message----- From: devs-bounces@xwiki.org [mailto:devs-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Miguel Bento Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:23 PM To: XWiki Developers Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Lightbox Proposals (2) Hi Evelina, I've just had a peek look at your alternatives and to give you some feedback here's my opinion. Personally i think we're better of integrating a new Lightbox than using the current one, this from the code descriptions you made above. From the alternatives you presented, the Prototype Window seems like the winner for me. It's more mature, fast and offers more functionalities than the other two LightBoxes, so my only doubts about this choice are: - Cross Browser support: I think that as a company that develops a web product we can't affort to not support Opera and IE7/8 because they represent about 20/30% of internet users. I guess you're better off seing how difficult would be to add support for those browsers to the set of functionalities we really need. - Excess of functionalities: As the Prototype Window is somehow the best option because it offers more functionalities it also is the heaviest(not the slowest) and this made me focus if we really need all those functionalities and if we would be better off with a smaller version that only has the smaller set of functionalities that we really need. Well since the browsers trend is to have faster and faster js engines(Google Chromio, wicked fast, and the new JS engine for FF3, not yet released) i think it's better to have more than less. - Easability to extend: Since the Prototype Window doesn't supports, for example, a photo slide show and if ou really intend to support this i recomend you to check out how hard would that be since i had some big surprises with similar issues on my last, and lately failed, project! So, here's my "non-binding" +1 to Prototype Window. (non-binding since i'm no xwiki expert and this decision has to be taken by "xwiki-experts") Glad i could help, Miguel Bento. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

My personal PoV is that the LightWindow one looks better (it's definitely my favorite one : cool & stylish :-), but from a technical PoV it seems a bit too limited, especially in terms of styling. Since the ModalBox one looks good too and it seems to have the right technical implementation, I'd say it's a good fit. So here's my non-binding +1 for ModalBox Guillaume On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean <jv@xwiki.com> wrote:

Hi,

+1 for Modalbox : - 10KB gzipped - has a bug tracker - unit and functional tests

Questions : - does it have automatic width adjustment ? (btw I'm not sure that lightboxes are the best thing to use for photo galleries)

JV.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Evelina Vrabie <evelina.slatineanu@xwiki.com> wrote:

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Hi,

Sorry for the previous messy mail. Devs lists don't support html format (didn't know that until I tried :P). So, I created a Design page here: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/LightboxImprovements

It would be very very nice to have some feedback on this.

Thanks for your patience,

Evelina

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