ZM3 Sneak Peak: Enhanced Lightbox
Hey Friends! I know that for some of you, not seeing Mark III yet has been pretty unbearable — trust me, it’s been hard not to see it launch quite yet.
So, as I work on the issues postponing our release, I want to take some of the time to show you sneak peaks into what I’ve been working on for the last six months: first stop, enhanced lightbox!
Lightbox functionality has been one of our strongest features as it allows you to view a larger version of a photograph from the thumbnail view. Our enhanced lightbox now allows you to finally view your photos as a slide show — check-out the video above to see it in action!
Thanks to all who send their love and support — it’s been a hard last few days and your support has been most of what I’ve been working off of. Thank-you.
I’m going to get back to it. 
With continued love and respect,
March 21st, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Very cool!
March 21st, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Man youy are such a teaser.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Dang, that is so cool! Great work.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Nice, first time I’ve seen Lightbox JS V2.0 on anything other than the demo site. Looking very good. I was wondering could you release any details of the API? I’ve been thinking about working on something and I’m getting a little antsy to start. If not I’ll patiently wait as I check my feed reader no less than 10 times a day.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Great work, Kris! CAN’T WAIT!
Any ETA in mind?
March 21st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
If anyone else would like to use the same lightbox on their own website it’s called Suckerfish HoverLightbox Redux and you can get it at:
http://mondaybynoon.com/2007/02/19/suckerfish-hoverlightbox-redux/
What would be cool was if you could see comments in the white area underneath the picture (in the lightbox). Just expand the white area enough to see one comment, and have a scrollbar to see the rest. Also there should be a link that when clicked expands the white area further to reveal a text area to write your own comment. Or the text area could just replace the old comments instead of expanding the white area.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:17 pm
The Lightbox script has had the ability to create “slide shows” of all images on a page for a while now (http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/). Does the zooomr lightbox slideshow work for your whole photo stream though? (Including those not currently displayed on the page?) Because that would be cool.
I’m not trying to undermine all of your hard work - trust me, I know how hard and frustrating it can be to write and release a web app (although nothing as large as Mark III!) - but I’m just hoping there are some features a ~little~ better than an updated Lightbox ;). C’mon Kris, you need to tease us with something better than that!
Good luck finishing up the release.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Jesswa, we always save the best for last
-Kristopher
March 21st, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Very cool; I’ve been hoping for some sort of slideshow feature for a long time now! Hope everything’s going well with Mark III. Thanks for working hard to make this site great.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Looks great. I hope this will work for smartsets too, because that’s what they are lacking very much.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Great work Kristofer!!!
I’m crazy for Zooomr and I’ll think that with Mark III will be simply superlative.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Jasswa, do you mean whole photostream, even if you are in a set (this is currently the case I think). If you do, I would have to disagree, but if you are talking about not limiting it to the 40 or 25 pictures per page, I would agree with you.
I just want to have a set’s slide show only contain images from that set.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:17 pm
web apps are a particularly complex challenge, you have different clients that behave different.
I hope the transition will be a complete success.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Sweetness… slideshow functionality was one of my most requested features as well!! I hope it is safe to assume we can view a slideshow of a smartset too??
Thanks!
March 21st, 2007 at 10:00 pm
I hope the new lightbox finally works with IE.
March 21st, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Tough crowd
March 21st, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Cool, I like it. And yes, I agree, slideshow of a smartset is the most important thing. Thanks for the update, Kris.
March 21st, 2007 at 11:39 pm
cool!
we also started using lightbox on the site that i work with (clickthecity.com)..in our gallery section. here’s a sample…
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:12 am
kris - in mark three is there going to be the capacity to sort by tags for a single user’s photos rather than bringing results for all users? sorry if you have already said!
best,
Jon
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:59 am
Looks great, and if the examples that other people have posted are anything to go by it will work with IE7
Would be great if it could prefetch the next image so the transistion was smooth…..fingers crossed.
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:27 am
I just wish I had a password for http://sandbox.zooomr.com/
You can’t blame me for trying!
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:52 am
Yahoo Pipes, FeedBurner, Zooomr: ci sono riuscito?
C’era una volta un giovane blogger a cui un giorno venne la malsana idea di integrare ai feed dei post del proprio blog in Wordpress anche saltuariamente qualche foto presa dal suo account su Zooomr… Potrei continuare a raccontarvi tutto so…
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:01 am
I like the new lightbox interface. I was surprised when I didn’t find slideshow feature in original zooomr.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:34 am
I hate this co-founder.
He did’t allow the new member (like me)to upload our stuff on galleries.
I prefer flickr than zooomr.
Keep job sucker, you dam’n co-founder >.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:57 am
@Mike
No, I mean: say you are viewing a SmartSet with 120 photos, but only the first 50 photos are displayed on the current page. If you are at the 50th photo in the Lightbox slideshow, then to get to the next photo, you should just be able to hit the “next” button and the web app should figure out what the next photo should be - using some AJAXy goodness - and display it. The normal lightbox script only works for images/links in the current page - so, if zooomr hasn’t changed the Lightbox script, that means that to view the 51st photo, you’d have to actually skip to the next page and load the whole page before being able to view the 51st photo in the lightbox “slide show.”
…hope that made sense.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:22 am
Good to see updates, Kris! The lightbox is very nice indeed! Here’s to a great MarkIII release!
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:23 am
No amount of ripping other people’s code or ideas is ever going to make up for the fact that the overall design is ugly and clunky.
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:01 am
^
Imo MIII looks ten times prettier than Flickr
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:09 am
Please, ignore the trolls
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:57 am
No amount of ripping other people’s code or ideas is ever going to make up for the fact that the overall design is ugly and clunky.
You know, flickr wasn’t a new idea when it was started don’t you? There’s very rarely a new idea these days. Just different approaches.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:19 am
Since upload limits have been removed, what will purchasing a Pro account allow Zooomr users to do in addition to a free account?
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:37 am
I also see a archives, storefront, and an analytics link up above the photos in the video. Analytics are the coolest possible feature to me!
Being able to view detailed information about how your photos are viewed and used would be really cool.
Even something as simple as a list of the trackbacks would be nice, not having to venture into each photo to see them.
Keep up the great work guys! Love what I am seeing and thank you for all of your hard work and effort.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Looking good Kris! BTW, what’s with all the Flickr shills lately?
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Very slick. I’m trying to be patient
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Looks good! Curious about the other features of the new ZOOOMR as stated in http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9698865-2.html?
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:46 pm
You’re ripping off a competitor’s site (and I’m not talking about flickr).
And you know it.
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:15 am
You’re ripping off a competitor’s site (and I’m not talking about flickr).
And you know it.
What site is that then?
March 25th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
I was wondering when Mark III is coming?
March 25th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
ignore the trolls!
thanks for everything so far, and good luck finishing up MIII
March 26th, 2007 at 7:01 am
@Chris: You needed to be a diehard fan to find out THAT! Unless, ofcourse, if it was in the Video and I missed it…
March 26th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Any updates on M3?
March 26th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Have you got some news about mach3?
March 26th, 2007 at 10:19 am
@Yuvi: So no chance of a pointer then?
March 29th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
how I can pass my photos into Set?
sorry for my englihs…
franklyn_soriano@hotmail.com
April 4th, 2007 at 11:59 am
hmm not working
April 4th, 2007 at 11:59 am
hmm not working correctly
April 9th, 2007 at 6:09 am
rs audio
April 13th, 2007 at 3:23 am
thank you veryy veryy nıce very nice….
May 17th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Sorry
May 17th, 2007 at 6:20 am
Nice!
May 18th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Cool.
May 20th, 2007 at 6:41 am
Nice!
May 20th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Nice!
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Cool!
June 6th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Cool.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Nice
June 11th, 2007 at 4:11 am
Nice!
June 13th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Cool…
June 14th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Nice
June 14th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Cool…
June 18th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! niowdfysba
June 30th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Cool…
July 9th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Nice…
July 9th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Cool.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Nice…
July 10th, 2007 at 11:38 am
interesting
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 am
greatings…
thanks…
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