jQuery.popeye 1.0 released

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jQuery.popeye 2.0 has been released. Older Versions are no longer supported.

More than 100 comments on the first release of jQuery.popeye, an appearance on the frontpage of delicious.com and coverage in uncounted blogs…

I certainly didn’t expect that much interest. The numerous feature requests,  suggestions, bug reports and, in the end, acknowledgments and nice comments prompted me to continue development, as promised. So here it is, in a major release, a completely rewritten and overhauled jQuery.popeye, the image gallery plugin that started as an alternative to the famous JavaScript lightbox.
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Selecting input-fields with maxlength via jQuery

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524288?
2147483647?
-1?
No, that’s not my bank account balance…

Unlike any other attribute, maxlength is implicitly present on any input-element. I had to find this out the hard way trying to select only input-elements with an explicitly set maxlength via the jQuery-selector input[maxlength].
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jQuery.popeye – an inline lightbox alternative

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jQuery.popeye 2.0 has been released. Older Versions are no longer supported.

Writing the history of single-page image galleries on the web, one could start like this:

In the beginning, there was nothing. And the Developer said: “Let there be pop-ups!” And the Users saw that pop-ups were bad…

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