I’m slowly catching up on things now that I’m starting to integrate normal things back into my life since the move. This includes banal things such as eating and sleeping, but also includes responding to comments and requests. I had some great feedback over the past month for Simple Lightbox, so I took some time to respond by releasing a new version of SLB!
- Fix: Slideshow loops out of control (Mirage of Wallentin)
- Fix: Lightbox fails when group by posts disabled (Lange Find)
- Add: Option to use the image’s URI as caption when link title not set (Under UI options)
Mirage of Wallentin
Both miraged and Christer Wallentin reported having the same issue– a strange error was crashing the lightbox when the slideshow was playing. Thanks to their feedback, the slideshow is now on meds and does what it is told.
Lange Find
Early on I added an option to group images by posts so that the images in each post could be displayed in a separate slideshow when multiple posts are displayed on a single page. I haven’t checked the microfiche, but I figure it was about the same time that I messed things up and while images were properly grouped when the option was enabled, the lightbox totally broke with the option disabled. Thankfully Chris Lange noticed this and quickly told me about and just like that, things got better.
No Title No Service
Link titles are nice. They help with accessibility and they give something for those underused tooltips to do when you put your mouse over a link. SLB also likes link titles and uses them as a captions in the lightbox. Alternate text for images are also nice, once again for accessibility and those cute tooltips. SLB considers them a bit second-rate, but will still use alternate image text if no link title is available.
In the absence of a link title and alternate image text, SLB has historically resorted to using the source URI of the image it was displaying as the caption. Better to display something than nothing at all right? Well, no, not always, as Justin Oberman pointed out. SLB now has an option to use the image’s URI for the caption as a last resort fallback, or simply display nothing at all.
That’s all for Simple Lightbox 1.5.2. Go and update your copy now!
Discuss
Hajo
May 16, 2011 – 1:55 pmHello,
i like your plugin very much, but i can’t use it creates error thats what the validator is saying:
Line 66, Column 264: document type does not allow element “div” here
…alse,’layout’:'{slbContent}<d…
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The element named above was found in a context where it is not allowed. This could mean that you have incorrectly nested elements — such as a "style" element in the "body" section instead of inside "head" — or two elements that overlap (which is not allowed).
One common cause for this error is the use of XHTML syntax in HTML documents. Due to HTML's rules of implicitly closed elements, this error can create cascading effects. For instance, using XHTML's "self-closing" tags for "meta" and "link" in the "head" section of a HTML document may cause the parser to infer the end of the "head" section and the beginning of the "body" section (where "link" and "meta" are not allowed; hence the reported error).
Sol
May 16, 2011 – 3:44 pm@Hajo: You found a bug! The fix will be in the upcoming 1.5.5 beta and will be referred to as the Hajo Validation fix in your honor.
Also, note that this validation error does not affect the functionality of SLB, so feel free to continue using the current version until the updated beta is released.