Show HN: Weekend project - Magnific Popup (opens in new tab)

It's so funny, but as I become an exponentially better and better programmer, I start finding myself more and more drawn to stuff like this that someone put together in 2 days and is billed as "light weight" over any other feature than something with a trillion options already built for me.

Whenever a Javscript library throws a ton of inline !important css just to get their shit to look good, I'm like "now what am I supposed to do to make it look how I want it to look? To behave how I want it to behave? STOP IT!"

Another UX widget page with its demo buried.

I don't care how sweet and lightweight your widget is if it doesn't do what I'm looking for, so put the demo up front!!

At least this one actually has a demo. Sorry for the rant, pet peeve of mine. Otherwise, looks nice.

So I'm trying to integrate this with my site, and when I enabled gallery mode, I can no longer click to close, or hit the ESC key. Chrome's console seems to show a Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded in jquery. Ideas?

Awesome plugin! But what's up with yundex.ru?

I remember you from your Royal Slider Plugin which is just gorgeous. Your plugins are so much more responsive than other scripts which use too many sluggish transitions. I'm sold on the progressive loading. And I still can't believe you're not charging for this. Or perhaps you're the type that just gets joy from seeing your work all over the internet. In that case, include a donation box.

(Responsive as in "responds quickly"... Is it to late to ask the internet to stop saying Responsive when talking about Adjustive design that scales according to window size or device?)

This looks really great! Nice work! Do you have a breakdown of why this is better than the other million plugins out there? And I don't mean that in a rude way, either. I just think it would be beneficial for the plugin marketing to explain why it's better (or any other key differences) than others out there! :) Again, great work!

EDIT: I don't know how I originally missed the breakdown of why it's better at the top of the demo page. My apologies! :)

This is awesome, but watching the Youtube video is a little problematic on iOS. Users may get lost when you throw them over to the native player. Is there anyway to make it popup in Quicktime instead (like when you try to watch an embedded video) ?

Awesome! I was looking for that kind of intelligent lightbox plugin. It's exactly what I wanted. Kudos to you, me good sire!

This kind of attention to detail is rare. Keep up the good work!

Really good work, particularly like the fade-slide animation.

Popups are bad. They're still bad on websites.

Did it really take one weekend to make this? ;)

great project! Does it work with AngularJS's JQuery lite?

Looking forward to try this out - I've also used the author's Royal Slider plugin[1], and it works great.

1: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/royal-slider/

Is there an easy way to load via ajax, and then make it such that additional links in that loaded content will also have their content loaded in that same popup?

Sort of a little mini-window effect?

I've hacked that together for other modal/popup implementations before, and it works pretty well for simple interactions. But I'm starting to get weary of re-implementing it on the next new better modal/popup implementation, heh.

On OSX Chrome, after I open one of the popups off a 'view source' links in the demo section and close it... I can't seem to open any other 'view source' popups (including the first one) again, clicking on the links does nothing.

Just me?

I like this. I'm using a lot of FancyBox at the moment, but the ability to resize via CSS sounds like a killer feature. And, let's just pretend that the Bootstrap modal doesn't exist.

Thanks for sharing!

Very nice. One feature request: add touch navigation (touch and drag like in RoyalSlider) for galleries. Add this and it will probably be my goto lightbox.

This looks perfect! We have been using some sort of a hackup of a bunch of different ones; thank you for this (& using the MIT license)!

Thank you for a great plugin. I've used PrettyPhoto before, but yours looks much nicier. Can't wait to try it in new project!

This looks like a great alternative Popup library. Looking forward to reading through the source later today. Great work!

I'm glad its license is MIT ... I've been searching for similar plugin, but never found one with that license!

Excellent work. I love the style and simplicity. It will certainly be used in my future projects.

Very nice - beautiful, chrome-light and mobile-friendly. Decent API. Good documentation too!

Nobody seemed to notice that the header graphic changes on every load, nice little touch.

Great work! I will definitely be using this in the near future.

Nice plugin!!! Good work!!!

This is pretty amazing!

Godly plugin!

Nice plugin sir. Thank you very musssh!