Lightbox 2.1 added a new HTML DOM parser. However due to a memory leak in PHP 5.1.x and 5.2.x and an improper use of the garbage collection routine a rather glaring bug was introduced in which all content was replaced by information about the programmatic object. Version 2.2 addresses this issue and correctly cleans up
Lightbox Plus 2.2 update released
Posted Thursday, July 15th, 2010 12:39 pm GMT -5 | by Dan Zappone
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Announcing Lightbox Plus version 2.1
Posted Monday, July 12th, 2010 05:13 pm GMT -5 | by Dan Zappone
Lightbox Plus is now up to version 2.1 which replaces the regular expression method for adding lightboxes to content with a new HTML parser method. Thus far it seems to be much more accurate in interpreting HTML and correctly identifying elements to lightbox. I also added the option to have your styles live outside of
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Parsing HTML in Lightbox Plus
Posted Monday, July 5th, 2010 02:24 pm GMT -5 | by Dan Zappone
I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. When I originally wrote Lightbox Plus is was pretty simple and didn’t need to do much – so I used regular expressions to find links to images and modify the links to support lightboxing before WordPress returned them. Now however Lightbox Plus does much more and
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Important Lightbox Plus update, version 2.0.5
Posted Friday, July 2nd, 2010 09:00 pm GMT -5 | by Dan Zappone
A major flaw was pointed out to me by Milan Petrovic in that the styles (and really the scripts too) in the admin panel were being queued up all across the admin panel. While the scripts were really causing any problems the styles were an issue for plugins that used jQuery UI. I’ve corrected this
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Lightbox Plus version 2.0.1
Posted Monday, June 28th, 2010 11:21 am GMT -5 | by Dan Zappone
I just released Lightbox Plus version 2.0.1. Didn’t even get a chance to post about version 2.0 before I did an update. This version includes a number of new features such as the ability to add a secondary lightbox that can include video or flash and inline lightboxes that allow the display of inline content.
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