I’m like Steve Martin in The Jerk1Yes, I am referencing a movie that came out in 1979. I am old. when the new phone book arrives2Remember phone books? I do, due to the aforementioned condition of being old.. So very excited!
Actually, I confess, I am not excited. The new features sound good, but I am concerned about further UI regressions. I see the Preview “hand iron” icon is still there, so that is not promising.
But I will maintain a positive outlook, because it feels like I’ve been crabby lately, and I don’t need to be crabby to drive engagement, because I don’t have engagement! I can be free to be positive, or thoughtful, or rambling, whatever I choose to be.
I have gotten off-track a bit.
Apparently, you can apply lightbox effects to images now. Let’s try that! I have checked the new Expand to click option for the image below, which should make it full-screen and all immersive up in the hizzzy.
It seems to work. I’m not sure if I prefer this over the FooBox lightbox. Let’s try that one below and compare for science. Same image:
It looks like both pretty much give you the same larger image, but FooBox dims the rest of the browser window, retains the caption, and adds a border. On the other hand, the built-in lightbox plays a zippy animation when expanding the image to the larger size and feels all dynamic and modern.
On balance, I think I prefer the FooBox version, but I appreciate the new option1.
- Just like the footnotes WordPress added previously, which I occasionally use now, especially if I want my posts to look like high-falutin’ essays. ↩︎
