No more Lightbox for it is old school! FancyZoom (now at version 1.1), created by Cabel Sasser allows images on your webpage to be enlarge with a smooth zoom in effect. Yes, Mac-like!

It’s coded in Javascript, so should be is easy to embed in your website. Just need to copy and paste 3 lines of code into your page. I’ve applied it into Creation Wing, you can try it on my next post

Good points:

• For those who’re lazy, that’s me, it auto scales your images if they are bigger than your browser size.
• It applies to links to images automatically. No extra parameter to type in. Hence, I can use Textile with it.
• XHTML 1.0 STRICT

Baddies:

• You can’t view an image set in the zoom mode, unlike Lightbox Not recommended when using with image galleries.
• Images would not stand out as much since the background isn’t tinted black. I suppose can be tweaked.

Visit the page to get more details.