Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an empty text file.

One of the decisions that a front-end developer needs to make while building a website is the technique to include an image. It could be an HTML , or an image via CSS backgrounds, or maybe SVG . Choosing the correct technique is important and can play a huge role in performance and accessibility. Post written by Ahmad Shadeed.

A lightbox that works in all modern browsers with images, videos, iframes and any kind of HTML, has support for CommonJS and AMD, a simple API and zero dependencies.