LightBox-like libraries are mature piece of code – they were introduced some four years ago (original lightbox plugin in 2005),  are used a lot around the world and has become a standard in showing pictures on a web page.

But today i found new lightBox-like library named topUp, wich could easily become number one choice.

Why is TopUp number one choice for LightBox-like libraries?

The installation of TopUp consists of including only one file (no images or stylesheets!), the look-and-feel is Apple-like, the animations and transitions look fancy, you can still use Prototype, it is so easy to specify options and last but not least: you can stay updated with the latest version without changing any code. Great for expansions and bugfixes!

TopUp offers the following advantages:

• TopUp is absolutely free, also for commercial use
• A very easy setup process (only one include and nothing more)
• Using TopUp presets keeps your HTML code 100% clean, no extra code needed whatsoever
• The ability of displaying images, flash (from sites like Youtube, SWF and FLV files), movies (QuickTime, Windows Media and Realplayer), iframes, DOM elements and raw HTML
• TopUp can be used along with Prototype (just include TopUp before Prototype)
• TopUp is compressed with Yahoo! YUI Compressor to 33.4 KB (includes JS, HTML and CSS)
• Usage of CSS sprites to reduce the amount of image requests to two per layout for faster loading
• Cross-browser compatibility
• Fancy layouts, animations and transitions
• Auto-correction of size and position when required
• The possibility to create groups
• Support for AJAX requests
• And many more…