Highslide JS

What do you like best?

Back at the times (a few years ago, Internet Explorer 5 was still around), Highslide JS was a cutting edge script that implemented fairly well the lightbox concept.For what I remember, it maybe could have been the first to do so. The website featured also a nice configurator, jQuery UI style, so you could select the components and add-ons you needed and reduce file size of the downloadable script, and a lot of ready made examples for galleries, single photos, HTML content, captions, etc.

What do you dislike?

Unfortunately, this product hasn't aged well: the CSS styles have not been updated for responsiveness and also the product website has stayed exactly as it was when it started (Internet Explorer 5 references included). Nowadays web standards change at godspeed and there is plenty of modern, cutting edge alternatives for any lightbox need you could imagine.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Please look elsewhere. In 2018 you can't use Highslide JS anymore as it is not optimized for the latest technologies and paradigms, and there is plenty of free alternatives with beautiful CSS default styles and built-in support for responsivity.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Back at the times Highslide JS was one of the first implementations available of the lightbox concept, so we used it a few times to display content (images, galleries, HTML pages, messages to the user) on top of the current page, in a separate "window". Now we utilise more modern scripts to realise the same benefits that the lighbox paradigm brings.