<story><title>Full CSS3 Lightbox - Absolutely no JavaScript</title><url>http://playground.deaxon.com/css/lightbox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aw3c2</author><text>So I will get lightboxed even with my no-javascript browsing habits? I liked that most sites simply serve the direct image url to me. Lightbox is an annoying eye-candy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lwhi</author><text>A lightbox is really just an implementation of a &apos;modal dialog / window&apos; - which is useful, because it demands the user&apos;s attention before it can be dismissed.&lt;p&gt;Being able to produce such a window in web applications could be useful in many situations - we don&apos;t need to limit them to image display.&lt;p&gt;The fact that &apos;lightboxes&apos; have been abused / over-used, isn&apos;t a reason to dismiss the technology.</text></comment>
<story><title>Full CSS3 Lightbox - Absolutely no JavaScript</title><url>http://playground.deaxon.com/css/lightbox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aw3c2</author><text>So I will get lightboxed even with my no-javascript browsing habits? I liked that most sites simply serve the direct image url to me. Lightbox is an annoying eye-candy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyro</author><text>I don&apos;t mind it if it&apos;s snappy and the image loads almost instantaneously, which is what I got when viewing this demo. Typically, with javascript, I&apos;d have to wait a few seconds for the loading-wheel to spin until the image finally loads. Not that I can&apos;t wait a few seconds; it&apos;s just annoying.</text></comment>