As much as I like MooTools and plugins like LightBox, I have a beef with how those plugins all alter the default behavior of the browser. Specifically, they seem to break the shortcut keys to open new tabs and windows since they treat any type of click as a request to open the lightbox and thus disable the default action on the link. They also take us back to the synchronous nature of the web as viewing images with these types of plugins can no longer be queued. Tabs are the best thing since sliced bread and we should be able to use them even if you have a cool viewer embedded in your page.
I'm working on some stuff and I want to get around this problem but the main problem is that there is no "keycode" property on a mouse click type of event. I've had to resort to something like this clip to achieve the desired effect: http://pastie.org/639786 So far this logs correctly whether the command key was pressed while clicking the 'test' element. What I'd like to see is plugins that detect clicks with modifier keys like "command" on the Mac or "control" on Windows. Then maybe we could recover my ability to open images in new tabs when viewing a gallery. Any tips on how to proceed?
