Smoothzoom imitates the way Medium displays images on its blog posts, allowing the user to expand any image thumbnail into a fully-blown lightbox image.
Smoothzoom includes support for responsive layouts and mobile devices, using smooth transitions to expand the thumbnail into its larger version.
The plugin can be configured to use two image viewing techniques. The first uses separate images for the thumbnails and for the lightbox image, being ideal for websites where bandwidth usage is a factor.
The second simply embeds the larger image in the page and resizes it using HTML&CSS to appear smaller. Smoothzoom will then simply expand it without replacing the actual image. This technique is much simpler and faster to implement, but might end up eating away at your hosting account bandwidth since every image is embedded at its natural size.
A demo page is included with the Smoothzoom download package.
Requirements:
- JavaScript enabled on client side
- jQuery
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