Lightbox.js, .NET 2.0 and Web 2.0
Over on our blog at Curious Office I was writing about developing our “web 2.0″ app using the .net 2.0 framework. To be honest, we didn’t decide in advance to develop ImageKind with Microsoft technologies. Initially, I discussed developing the whole project using a combination of Rails and PHP with Ben Curtis. But, I had several meetings with a friend and very experienced developer over at Microsoft who encouraged me to consider the .net framework given the details we shared about the project. I outlined the project requirements and then went looking for the best developers I could find. Once I found our lead developer (Dongxia Liu) I knew that our chosen technologies would revolve around her preferences and experience. Given the size and scope of our particular project, I have no doubt that the .net 2.0 framework was the right choice.
While Microsoft may not be as web2.0 trendy as Rails, that didn’t stop us from playing with the very trendy Lightbox script. This javascript allows you to overlay any content over your existing page…basically giving you an avenue to place content ON TOP of the page without worry about layout or column widths (and avoiding a less elegant ‘pop-up’ in the process). We modified the script and stylesheet to actually merge both lightbox and the super cool DHTML cropping app from Speedingrhino.com. Our users can crop images they are working on right on the page without leaving their workspace. Pretty cool stuff.
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