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> I'm putting the finishing touches on a media viewer application that I
> coded up recently (think Thickbox). It can be used with jQuery or any
> other library. I created an adapter for jQuery, and I thought that
> somebody on this list might be interested.
>
>
Michael,
I really love what you've done with shadowbox. But I dislike having to add
specific markup to drive the behavior. And as a jQuery user I really want
to invoke it like this (for example):
$('a[href$=swf]').shadowbox();
So if you're open to suggestion, I'd love to see a minor modification.
Here's what I changed to make it more amendable to the jQuery calling style.
1. Added this method to shadowbox.js (just below the current "setup" fn):
Shadowbox.setup2 = function(links){
for(var i = 0, len = links.length; i < len; ++i)
setupLink(links[i]);
};
2. Added this to shadowbox-jquery.js:
jQuery.fn.shadowbox = function() {
Shadowbox.setup2(this);
};
Now I can call it like this without having to change any markup anywhere, so
it becomes a drop-in replacement:
$(function() {
var options = { /* whatever */ };
Shadowbox.init(options);
$('a[href$=swf]').shadowbox();
});
Of course there are more restrictions than one might expect from a
traditional jQuery plugin (like not being able to pass options on a per-call
basis), but it's a pretty minor change. Food for thought.
Mike
