Shadowbox is a web-based media viewer application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.
Shadowbox uses HTML markup that validates. It doesn’t depend on phony HTML attributes in your anchor tags to make it work. The web has enough problems with standards compliance as it is, and Shadowbox does its best to not perpetuate them.
Although Shadowbox has the unique ability to adapt to whatever JavaScript framework you choose, it’s just as easy to run it as a standalone app, giving the developer a great deal of flexibility.
Shadowbox supports a host of options that make it highly configurable. If you don’t like the way something works, chances are very good that you can change it without digging through the code.
Shadowbox supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats including images, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Flash, Flash video, HTML, and even external web pages. This makes it easy to display your content, no matter what it is.
Shadowbox tries to be as unobtrusive as possible. If your client doesn’t have JavaScript enabled, it will stay completely out of the way and allow the page to function normally.
License: Free for Personal Use
