Add lightbox plugin for easier access to big images

[msurguy]

Currently, in order to view large images, they are are opened in new window. To avoid this usability problem, we can look into Lightbox plugins that are lightweight and have permissive license.

[gohai]

Sounds useful. Plus if it works in a meaningful way on phones.

[msurguy]

@gohai Here are the options that I've found to be OK:

• http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/ MIT license, lots of users, works reasonably well
• http://photoswipe.com/ by the same author, MIT license but needs the image dimensions to be known before displaying the lightbox
• https://github.com/imgix/luminous (BSD-2 Clause license)
• https://github.com/andreknieriem/simplelightbox (MIT license)
• https://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/ (MIT license)

If you're familiar with some good examples of such scripts, please let me know what requirements we should have for a lightbox-like plugin.

Thanks!

[gohai]

Hi Maks,

Thanks for looking at the different options. You should pick what you think is the right option. (I was looking to see if I can find some super minimal solution for Hugo, such as this Pure CSS one, but I wasn't quite successful.)

Best