Fancybox not free?

[NorbertH]

From : http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/

fancyBox licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license.
You are free to use fancyBox for your personal or non-profit website projects.
You can get the author's permission to use fancyBox for commercial websites by paying a fee.

Concerning to that i have to pay 15,00 € for each domain i use Fancy ?

So maybe its not a good idea to use Fancybox at all ?

Asking myself if that counts for backend use too, so in had to pay 15 bucks anytime i use PW on a commercial site?

[Marty Walker]

I think that's been the case for quite some time. If you're after an alternative there are plenty of lightboxes around. I've used Magnific popup (which is used in the PW admin) recently and that's been ok: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/

[Joss]

Yep, but there are others out there like colorbox

[NorbertH]

I've used Magnific popup (which is used in the PW admin)

Ahh, the i got it wrong. I thought Fancy is used in PW admin, not sure why ....

Here is so much talk about fancybox around here and many pepole seem to use it i guess thats the reason.

You are right Colorbox is far better + there are a few very smooth and cool lightboxes on codecanyon that even cost less.

[Martijn Geerts]

I thought Fancy is used in the admin.

Yes version 1, that one is free

(Think you need an old jQuery to run it as it relies on $.browser, or you've to patch it manually)

Marty's magnific suggestion is a great one

[NorbertH]

Taken a closer look, you are right this one is great.

Now i understand why they say use your own Jquery and plugins in the frontend...

[Marty Walker]

There's a few usage example the author added to Codepen. They might come in handy for you: http://codepen.io/collection/nLcqo/

[videokid]

on a side note... if you're using zurb foundation, a similar solution is build in

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/clearing.html

Personally I'm still fond of PrettyPhoto.

 - V.

[Mike Rockett]

Yes, this has been going around for quite a while. Everybody I know has made the switch, mostly to alternatives already mentioned by others.

Personally, I never liked FancyBox anyway... just my two cents.

[Peter Knight]

Fancybox had a multi site licence for about 69 Euro which can be used as often as you like.

http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/