I have a question for all of the users out there who are using the Shadowbox JS and Lightview JS WordPress plugins.
Would you prefer the plugin to automatically add the activator attributes to the links for Shadowbox and Lightview respectively, rather than having to manually add it to your links?
I am one of those people who believe that more flexibility is a better feature than ease of use by less typing.
With that being said I could see a situation where one would simply want to use Shadowbox or Lightview for all of their image links and where adding the activator attributes to the links would become tiresome.
Perhaps a good compromise would be to add functionality to either enable or disable global activation on image links? Perhaps making global activation the default would be beneficial?
I think I have already talked myself into adding this functionality but I would still like to hear some user feedback, so tell me what you think.
Absolutely! When I installed it I was hoping that all my links would begin to activate a grey box when clicked letting people know, “you can go there, but you are still here.” It helps with retention and people actually like seeing these lightview boxes. So I agree with you.
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The global activation sounds good to me. But I have another idea, if it can be done at all.
Sometimes I would just like to post the image and have everything else taken care of for me, but other times I want to manually set up the attributes with galleries and such.
So I think the true condition of the global activation should first check each image for the attributes, and if it finds them, it should not do anything with that image. That way, if it doesn’t find the attributes already on the image, then it can add them. It won’t override the code I put in manually, but it’ll do what I didn’t do, basically.
Is that possible?
BTW – This comment form keeps clearing to your default message on submit in Safari, lets hope this one works in FF3. So excuse my previous comment here, that was the result.
I don’t mind, because i’m using the plugin add lightbox for that purpose, but if you add this functionality, i would like that there is no use of the characters “[" "]” inside the rel attribute, because is not xHtml 1.0 Strict Compliant.
@Darkanima: The use of the square brackets in the rel attribute does not violate XHMLT 1.0 strict compliance. It validates perfectly.
It does violate xhtml 1.1 strict, though.
i prefer to have control. it’s o.k. for images, but i’m using it for an iframe where i have to be able to define parameters like size and title and therefore wouldn’t want the plugin to potentially mess up my settings in case of an edit or whatever.
i would like for the shadowbox or lightview to place the rel=”shadowbox” attributes automatically to all media files.
i know that lightbox and slimbox do this. I would like Shadowbox to do this also. How would I modify the files to accomplish this ? I am using it on wordpress.
Automatically inserting attributes and rel info could be handy, but also a form of aided manual input could help in some cases.
What about a button next to the media icons in the edit form. It would insert all needed attributes, and it would allow the user fine control over the code inserted.
@Matt, You are right. I menat xHtml 1.1.
Having the option would be amazing!