When supernaut first began, there was barely much of the internet as it is now. I had decided to use Movable Type for my blog and WordPress was not even a year old – I don’t think I’d even heard of it. Besides the horrible static page method of publishing in MT, more generally handling images was a big episode of blah.

To get images to open in a pop-up window without the irritation of window baggage scrollbars, toolbars and so on) meant yucky JavaScript in the link tag. A perfect example of depreciated code staining the web is that almost seven years later, I’m still using this rubbish code.

Feeling rather frisky today (17h, still in bed), I decided it wouldn’t really be so difficult to implement the current joy-of-images, a jQuery Lightbox plugin. I expect it to be depreciated in a matter of a year or so, but in the meantime…

Click image and enjoy. The best thing is that it adds the necessary tag to the image link so works on all images. I suppose I should clean up the style a bit…

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