Photobox – CSS3 Image Gallery jQuery Plugin

Photobox is a lightweight image gallery modal window script which uses CSS3 heavily for silky-smooth animations and transitions. The goal was to great an image gallery script that utilizes GPU rending instead is the 90% scripts out there which are using javascript to move things around the old fashioned way.

Supports: Firefox, Chrome and IE9+ (works in an ugly way which the users deserve)

Benefits

• Both the script & CSS are only 7k each (minified script, not gziped)
• Uses silky-smooth, hardware accelerated, CSS3 transitions and animations (for better performance)
• Pretty UI and easy UX
• CSS3 preloader, tailored-made. The only image you need is the arrow.png (soon even not that)
• Works also on IE9 and above, but clearly not as nice as in normal browsers
• Uses event-delegation on all thumbnails events

What can Photobox do

• Images can be zoomed in and out with mousewheel and navigated using mousemove to move around
• Bottom row of thumbnails, navigated by mouse movment
• Shows the image's 'alt' or 'title' attribute text at the bottom
• Indicate the index of the current viewed image in relation to the total, like so: (36/100)
• Supports looping after first and last images
• Supports keyboard keys for navigation and closing the gallery view

Website Demo