Greased Lightbox v0.12 - Shifting Pixel

I just released Greased Lightbox v0.12.

I got a bunch of e-mails for bug fixes and a couple new translations (German and Polish). I got most of the fixes into this version, but keep the e-mails coming! Thanks everybody for helping me out with this project… you have been such a big help.

Change Log

Wikipedia support (thanks Christian Neubauer!)
New German translation (thanks Alex Brem!)
New Polish translation (thanks s3kvir pascon!)
Fixed update checker
Made updates more obvious
Minor bugs squashed

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13 Comments

tk said
May 26th, 2006 at 11:28 am

Just wanna say that the https bug has been fixed as far as I can tell. Haven’t bumped into other protocols like ftp, but I suppose you got those included as well.
Keep up the good work!

Karnov said
June 1st, 2006 at 8:54 pm

You should think about adding support for things like paintedover, imageshack, imagesocket, fileanchor, etc. Generic image hosts. Or even better, a tutorial on how to manually code the scripts needed to support these hosts.

Joe Lencioni said
June 1st, 2006 at 11:24 pm

@Karnov: The way that Greased Lightbox figures out the URL of the larger image must be based on either the URL of the link or the URL of the thumbnail image. Unfortunately, some generic image hosts like imageshack do not have URLs that give away the location of the larger image. (It seems that imagesocket actually does)

However, the tutorial is a great idea. I think I might write one up and post it here.

In the meantime, do you happen to have or know of a fairly comprehensive list of image hosts? It would be helpful to have.

Karnov said
June 4th, 2006 at 4:01 pm

Wikipedia has a pretty good list of different hosts:
http://www.wikiclassifieds.org/wiki/Image_hosting

Also speaking of wikipedia, I think support should definitely been added for it, seeing as how popular it is.

Aleksey said
June 4th, 2006 at 8:26 pm

Can someone let me know if this works with our service?

Thank you in advance guys.

Joe Lencioni said
June 5th, 2006 at 8:32 pm

@Karnov: thanks for the link. It will be helpful.

Also, support for wikipedia was actually added in this release. However, the support doesn’t extend to other wiki sites (even those running the same software, MediaWiki) such as the one you linked to, wikiclassifieds.

Joe Lencioni said
June 5th, 2006 at 8:34 pm

@Aleksey: Greased Lightbox does not currently work with your service, but I believe that I can add support with the next release. I will notify you when that happens.

Mike said
July 3rd, 2006 at 8:55 pm

If you want some help adding support for FileAnchor, let me know. Both our thumbnails now and the thumbnailed versions on the new version of FileAnchor we’ll be putting out are standard and easy to get off the main image url.

Contact me at mike@fileanchor.com and I’ll explain what’s need.

Joe Lencioni said
July 5th, 2006 at 7:25 am

Thanks Mike!

Mike said
July 9th, 2006 at 4:42 pm

I figured I’d save you from having to email.

As of right now, thumbnails and images work like this:

Raw image: http://fileanchor.com/{fileID}-r.{filetype}
Thumbnailed image: http://fileanchor.com/{fileID}-r.{filetype}

This would make it fairly easy to determine the difference between a raw image and thumbnail or switch from one to the next. The format is the same for every image right now on FileAnchor.

Example:
http://fileanchor.com/30551-r.png -raw image
http://fileanchor.com/30551-t.png -thumbnail

Joe Lencioni said
July 9th, 2006 at 10:57 pm

Thanks again Mike. I’ll look into doing this some more hopefully this week when things slow down a bit. Life has been busy lately.

Joe Lencioni said
July 21st, 2006 at 8:01 pm

Upon further inspection, it looks like I don’t need to do anything to add support for FileAnchor because if the person using it is presumably linking directly to the image. That should automatically work then.

However, I couldn’t easily find any examples in the wild.. So, if you could point me to some websites that showcase people actually using the FileAnchor service, that would be great!

Mike said
July 24th, 2006 at 12:42 am

Joe,

I’m going to link you to some file options pages for files that are already uploaded onto FileAnchor. They’ll show the thumbnail for the image below all the links and html code. Clicking that thumbnail will act just as a normal thumbnail would.

http://fileanchor.com/43381-o
http://fileanchor.com/38950-o
http://fileanchor.com/38051-o

Thanks,
Mike