Well, I went through, and found out that I was, while it wasn’t too hard to implement, going to be reinventing the wheel too much with lightbox2 . I found that it has been painful, however, to add lightbox to the site. A rather large 200 Kb footprint… not so easy on me since I’m already loading a lot with spry (Spry data is hefty. It makes up for it with the complete and total cleanliness, but still… ickypoo!). I’m going to rebalance the load on the server by throwing up some thumbnailers and eventually I’ll get to a level at which I can make the page also gracefully degrade from JS for all you textual/cellphone browsin’ peeps. Later, if I feel masochistic, I’ll put in some code for AIR and the like so that you can load it on an iphone. It totally won’t be worth it for now, however. And ack… what a pain. The added size in JS files. Does prototype HAVE to be so big?
I tried using lytebox, but no beans. It simply chokes on the SPRY, is what I’m thinking is happening. Otherwise, I could cut out a lot of the excess. :-/
I’ll go into aptana and try to debug lytebox later (it’s still on the server), and see what I come up with. It probably won’t be pretty… but it would be worth it just to reduce the script overhead.
