Introducing Lightly [UPDATE]
Myself and my mate Marty love the way Reeder displays the screenshots of their excellent RSS reader app. So much so, we thought it’d make a great plugin for jQuery, using CSS3 Animations as it’s base. One of the goals for this mini hack day was to first build our own jQuery plugin, which neither of us had really done before, plus with the release of Firefox 5 we thought we could make the animations themselves work on a few more browsers, specifically FF5 and Opera (and any new ones that support CSS3 Animations in the future).
What we had at the end was version 0.1 of Lightly! It’s early days for this plugin, but we’re so happy with the results that we’re planning on a few updates to make it even better. Hopefully in the next few weeks we’ll add image preloading, captions, configurable box shadows (using CSS3 again) and a few other bits n bobs, fixes, etc. For a demo, just check out any of the project images on this site, as I’ve changed over from the great FancyBox to Lightly recently (gotta practice what you preach!).
If you like Lightly, and have used it on a site, or if you have any problems/suggestions, feel free to get in touch with us via our Twitter accounts; me and Marty.
UPDATE
Version 0.2 has been release, now with image preloading.