Lightboxes
May 19th, 2009 — 7:22am
I saw in a message that I was copied on where a client asked what a lightbox was. Put simply, some applications include a lot of images that users may want to browse. Displaying every image on its own page may not be the most efficient way to do it — both for your visitors and your server. As visitors navigate back and forth the server incurs additional hits, which can be avoided with lightboxes because images are displayed without having to load a new page.