Script of the Day: OrangeBox

OrangeBox is a jQuery plugin for showing content inside floating modal popup boxes. For people running a WordPress site, they'll be happy to know that OrangeBox is available as a WP plugin as well.

All the modal windows nonsense started back in the middle of the 2000s when Lightbox, a Prototype plugin was open-sourced by Lokesh Dhakar. It was so unique and innovating that it was quickly ported or copied to any other JavaScript framework out there.

And while almost 1 in 3 developers was launching its own Lightbox-clone project, not many were actually that good. Few had documentation, few worked on more than 3-4 browsers, most of them fell apart in older browsers.

So, the modal windows niche quickly narrowed down to a few good scripts that got really popular and gained wide-spread adoption, while all other projects died away in a corner of the Internet. Luckily, new modal scripts are still being developed, and recently, a new project has risen to elite status and can be added to that small list of good modal systems, OrangeBox.

It's a complex system that works on all modern browsers and supports a wide range of content, from various image extensions to SWF, Flash videos, inline HTML and even remote iframes. Quite easy to install and use, OrangeBox also comes prepared for the new era in development, providing out-of-the-box mobile support.

OrangeBox development is handled via its Google Code account.

Download OrangeBox from our Scripts section here.

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