Who knew that when Michael Jackson wasn’t innappropriately touching small boys that he was creating awesome javascript utilitities? (OK probably a different MJ)

Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating away from the linking page.

This lightbox lets you view not only images, but flash movies and even entire websites. It is also not tied to a particular javascript framework like most of the other lightbox scripts I’ve found. It comes with adapters for some of the most popular (jquery, prototype etc). You can read more about it, and download the code here: http://www.astro.cz/_java/shadowbox/

I’ve used it in a wee portfolio page I threw together here: http://www.rockurchin.com/portfolio Click on a website link to see it in action. I used it with Jquery.