Modal Information Boxes: RedBoxPlugin for Ruby on Rails
Posted by Daniel Butler Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:22:00 GMT
Craig Ambrose, an Aussie from Melbourne, has announced the RedBox Plugin for Ruby on Rails. He writes,
I’ve written a little plugin to use for displaying a block of html over a page while fading out the background. This is like the lightbox.js library, and all it’s related offshoots (thickbox, greybox, etc.). My plugin, Redbox, is not really any better than these others (in fact, it’s less mature, and less tested), but it builds on prototype and scriptaculous, is available as a rails plugin, provides easy to use helpers, and unlike the other libraries, works very well with rails’ ajax functionality.
Looks nice, and it’s easy to use. Thanks, Craigh.
The modal box looks great, and its simple too. Excellent. 1 issue I have found is that when you have a very long page, the modal appears off the screen (up towards the top) I believe it should use the current page position like other implementations.