So I spent most of today in the breadline, looking for a job. Apparently in this market there is no room for Front End UI Developers/Designers. Go USA!
So I’m working on a script that takes advantage of the (that sounds so very, very wrong) MooTools JavaScript framework to create an application like the Lightbox JavaScript app, only much more powerful.
Why? Well, why not? Also, and by no means do I mean to discredit Lokesh Dhakar’s (he wrote Lightbox) awesome code, I just vision it doing more powerful things, not just show pictures. As I was researching, I found that someone else has already jumped ahead of me with this same vision. That person would be John Einselen from iaian7.com. He’s already done some amazing work and I’ll be standing on his shoulders as I modify and tweak code, and of course will give him credit where credit is very much do.
So what is this app going to be? Imagine having the same “lightbox effect” only instead of applying just to images, it would be used for pretty much anything you can imagine. Here’s just a small sample list of what I’ve got in mind:
Flash
Video (almost all formats)
Images (dur)
Web Pages
Audio
PLUS!!!
The ability to read you Flickr stream, Google and YouTube Video, MySpace, Facebook, Veoh, MetaCafe, and others. All you’ll have to do is modify your link, embedded or not. Just one simple statement and there ya go!
ACTUALLY…
It’s not going to be THAT easy, but it will be easy enough. Just a couple of scripts that need to be uploaded to you server, a few lines of code added to your HEAD section, and you’ll be done.
RELEASE…
I’m planning on working on it this weekend, and will hopefully have it up early next week. Until then, if you just CANNOT WAIT, check out iaian7’s app on his page listed above.
Time for beer and hockey.
Cheers!