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ryanwaggoner
Interesting, but the back button in Safari 4 goes back through all the futureboxes that were popped up and closed previously, as if each were its own page. Really annoyed me...
beza1e1
Hm, looks like a feature to me.

The problem i see is that all the images are loaded at once. Lightbox loads the big images on demand.

ROFISH
It IS a feature. This is abused by most pure Javascript apps such as GMail. It's just carried over to this CSS implementation.
ryanwaggoner
How is it abused by Gmail? The back button in Gmail works exactly like I would expect it to in a non-ajax app.
ryanwaggoner
Seems like a lame feature to me. If I hit a gallery page and view 6 or 7 images, I don't want to have to hit the back button 15 times to get to the previous page. To me, viewing a larger version of an image on the page isn't the same as viewing a new page, and the back button behavior should reflect that.
Raphael
Now combine it with CSS transitions.
ahrjay
Yeah I thought about adding in some css transitions for safari 4 but went against it due to it causing problems with every other browser that doesn't support the -webkit-transition property.
treyp
Cool, but just in theory because of IE compatibility issues.

Hmm, I wonder if you could have done this without :target, using a:active. Drop an element inside of a link that is the lightbox container (#lightbox_container), set to display: none. Then, a#lightbox_link:active #lightbox_container would be display:block;.

I'm on my way out, but maybe I'll try it out when I get back. Using position: fixed on the lightbox container, it'd be IE7+ compatible. Position:absolute would be IE6+.

ahrjay
Good theory I would be very interested to see your results.
ashleyw
Doesn't it loose one of the advantages of a JS version — the ability to lazy load, rather than loading all the full sized images on every page load?
ramidarigaz
Tangent: is loose a non-American spelling of lose, or is it just commonly misspelled?
burke
It's an unfortunately common misspelling.
ashleyw
Haha, yes — I just spent 2 minutes scratching my head wondering if it was another British word which America 'simplified', as I found it in the dictionary and thought you meant 'loose' was a common misspelling of 'lose'; Only to realize, yes, lose and loose are two words. Opps!

I think it's time for some sleep...as should probably always be the case when you loose the ability to differentiate words... :D

ashleyw
"…case when you loose the ability…"

How could I do it again?!