Lightbox compatibility

They'll both be trapping the document.onclick event I guess... which lightbox script is this with, and do you have a link to the site in question?

- Angus.

That script uses Prototype v1.4 which extends the global Object.prototype with its own methods. This is bad behaviour that will affect every script on the page and I don't intend to patch SuperNote to avoid it!

Prototype v1.5 has wisely abandoned this approach and should be fully compatible with this script. Try dropping in v1.5 and seeing if the lightbox still works. If it doesn't, please suggest to the lightbox script author that s/he upgrade the script to Prototype v1.5.

Good luck - Angus.

OK, I have solved this. The problem is that the other script is using older DOM event cancelling techniques ("return false") and the SuperNote script's document-level event capturing function renders that ineffective. To fix, in lightbox.js change this line in the updateImageList function:

anchor.onclick = function  () {myLightbox.start(this); return false;}

to this:

anchor.onclick = function  (evt) {myLightbox.start(this); evt = evt || window.event; evt.returnValue = false; if (evt.preventDefault) evt.preventDefault(); }

You  might want to feed this back to the original author as it'll enhance Lightbox's compatibility with many other scripts too. I don't use Prototype a lot myself but I understand that it has some event management functions in its library that might help here if utilised!

Good luck - Angus.