Modal dialog, windows or a popular term lightbox is an unobtrusive ajax solution for displaying the content inside the page itself, it overcome the constraint of pop up windows which blocked by most of the modern browser. However, the usages of lightbox is more widely apply to preview of images, image gallery and form model. Since it only loads the relevant content in a box, it increase the loading time and whole user browsing experience. Below shown the details and demonstrate the default outlook of the lightbox.
1. Lightbox2
A popular lightbox solutions that written by Lokesh Dhakar, it is built on prototype and scriptaculous framework. It only supports images and slideshow.
