Highslide vs Lightbox

[MC]

For this you let the user download 13 KiB more than they would have had to
download if you had not "put the obstacle in the way". Every time the
document is loaded and the script is not cached.


PointedEars

Hmm,
13kb vs 10mb seems like a sweet trade to me Gnarly dude.
MC

 

[David Mark]

As a user, I completely agree. However as a webmaster I was forced to
make the page harder to use. Each page load was hitting me with 10MB,
and the page was getting tremendously popular. Not wanting to go into
bandwidth overtime, I had to put obstacles in the way of viewing the
high-quality photos. So the modal window is all about forcing the user
to work, and therefore reducing the bandwidth.

That may well be the stupidest explanation for a "LightBox" I've ever
heard. And that is up against some pretty stiff competition.

Try again?

 

[Tad J McClellan]

As a user, I completely agree.

With what?

It is customary to quote some context in followups.

 

[Gregor Kofler]

Gnarlodious meinte:

As a user, I completely agree. However as a webmaster I was forced to
make the page harder to use. Each page load was hitting me with 10MB,
and the page was getting tremendously popular. Not wanting to go into
bandwidth overtime, I had to put obstacles in the way of viewing the
high-quality photos. So the modal window is all about forcing the user
to work, and therefore reducing the bandwidth.

Erm... You're joking right? How about providing scaled down images
(which would make sense even without bandwith limitations).

Gregor