Given the (many) security problems with Java of late I'd be looking to
avoid anything that requires Java. I was so frustrated by Oracle's lax
behavior in light of multiple, frequent and very serious security
problems that I have banished it from my computers and with no
repercussions so far. It at first appeared that it was needed to print
the NY Times crossword puzzle my wife enjoys but we later discovered it
was available in PDF form which was even better. Good bye Java.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/1/2013 3:39 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>
>>
>> On 3/1/2013 7:12 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>>> I'm interested in using Lightbox, but looking for it by way of Google
>>> does not produce a downloadable that self-installs. Instead, I get links to
>>> all sorts of downloads that require additional downloads to install the
>>> files manually. After what I've gone through for the past couple of months
>>> I'm not very interested in hacking my way through another utility.
>>>
>>> So, anyone know of a downloadable for Lightbox that includes an
>>> install
>>> function?
>>
>> Might you be asking the wrong question? It looks to me that Lightbox IS one
>> of
>> those incompletely realized packages that will bring trouble and frustration.
>> It's an abandoned, limited version of Sagelight that is not supported and
>> won't
>> be updated.
>>
>> Sagelight offers a Lightbox package that is supposed to actually be
>> freestanding,
>> if desired, no additional stuff.
>> <http://www.sagelighteditor.com/downloadfree.html>
>>
>> OTOH, as explained above and in the above link, Lightbox doesn't sound very
>> attractive, and they promise a new, free, version of Sagelight soon.
>>
>> Why not download and try the full Sagelight for 30 days. If you like it, you
>> might even feel like paying the $40 for a registered, supported version. If
>> not, you could move on.
>>
>> IF you are trying to avoid troublesome installation and use, why not use
>> something that's known to work? There are a lot of free or very inexpensive
>> image editors around. Are you intentionally looking for one especially likely
>> to be unsatisfactory?
>>
>
> The Lightbox I'm thinking of is the Java plug-in that I see fairly
> often in many URLs for images on Flickr that is supposed to give you an
> enlargable overlay. I've downloaded that package, but then it requires yet
> another editor of some sort to install it and most of it seems to be lines
> that you add to your home page header file. Without it, when I go to those
> URLs with the "..../lightbox/" at the end I just get a black screen with a
> violet dot in the middle. Then I have to manually delete the
> "..../lightbox/" so I can see the images.
>
> I did download and install the free version of Sagelight (Lightbox)
> this morning, thinking it would install the Java addon, but no. However, I
> do like stated features of the Sagelight viewer/editor and I'm going to give
> it a try every so often.
>
>
>
>> Curious Moose
>>
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