Blogger's Lightbox Returns To Haunt Our Blogs!

Blogger have now reintroduced lightbox to all blogs. While they claim to have fixed a lot of the bugs/issues that were reported before, they have still turned lightbox on by default. Fortunately we don't need to apply a hacky workaround this time.

If you don't want to use lightbox then you can turn it off for each blog you write through your dashboard. Simply select “No” next to Lightbox in the Settings > Posts and Comments section (new interface) or the Settings > Formatting section (old interface). I still think this feature should be opt-in rather than opt-out but at least they are allowing us to opt-out, so I guess we should be grateful.
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Posted by Mark at 10/13/2011 10:23:00 AM

3 comments:

  1. ADRIANOctober 13, 2011 at 10:33 AM

    Your fix still works Mark. I noticed it this morning. The new interactive template is a pain but at least one can choose.

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  2. MarkOctober 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM

    Thanks ADRIAN, it's good to know it still works, so those people who haven't removed the fix won't be inconvenienced by lightbox being turned back on.

    I think it will probably be better to turn it off through your dashboard and remove the "fix" though as that should make the page load faster and will remove any chance of the "fix" messing up any gadgets people might be using on their blogs.

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  3. SouthpawOctober 20, 2011 at 11:25 PM

    I really can't decided if I like it or not.

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