There are no new versions of Mediabox or Multibox for Mootools 1.2 yet. Media and Multi-box mootools scripts are really great scripts for showing media. They offer more than a standards Lightbox-look-a-like. These scripts play flv, mov, mp3 and much more. Development has more or less, stopped on these very handy plugins. I honestly understand that people have lives and are busy, but to say that you’re going to wait for mootools 1.2 on 2007-7-7 and then more than a year later, not have made anything, is a bit misleading. According to wikipedia, it’s been 224 days since the release of Mootools 1.2!
1.2.0 / January 16, 2008
It is somewhat sad actually. The mootools 1.2 release has been out for sometime now and I thought they would have been more proactive about releasing the bugfix version of 1.2.1, but clearly that is a ways off.
I spent at least an hour today searching the old mootools forum and google for some hope of finding a solution to my woes. The reason I was looking for these little scripts was because it one of them was going to be a core piece of the puzzle in designing the Central News System (CNS, a biology joke). One these was going to be on the front page and you’d click on then you’d just see the news for the day. Really easy and really cool.
If anyone out there knows of a plugin for mootools that is similar to media or multi-box, let me know. I might end up having to hack one of the current versions but as you might have guessed, I’m not the greatest javascript programmer.
Update
Commenter Jako found a multibox version that functions properly with Mootools 1.2 in the phatfusion’s google code. However the only problem appears to be that the overlay.js isn’t quite ready yet. Rev16 (the link above) was just added on January 7th.
Update 2009-2-8
Recently, at the end of January, MediaBox Advanced was released to the public by John Einselen. It has loads of features and is what you’ve been waiting for. Further, it’s Mootools 1.2.1 ready but I imagine without much trouble, if you had to use it with 1.2.0, it could work. I haven’t tested it at all yet, but it looks great from the examples.
It seems to be something out there (a bit hidden):
http://phatfusion.googlecode.com/svn-history/r16/trunk/Interface/multibox.js
It works with MooTools 1.2! (More-Options: Fx.Slide und Assets)
Thanks for the link. That sure is hidden. If it works for 1.2, it’ll probably work for 1.2.1, so that’s great! Additionally, you can see more of Sam’s stuff here.
It works with 1.2.1 for sure. The only thing thats not ready is the overlay option. On my site I have changed this part of code back to the last version – so it uses overlay.js.
That’s excellent. I tried to port one of them (media or multi, I can’t remember) and it was really not a good experience for me, pretty overwhelming with all of the effects and things. Great find and thanks!
Hello there,
I wanted to thank you both for the link to the updated code. Unfortunately when I drop the new 1.4 rc16 code into the multibox.js file nothing seems to work anymore. Im currently using Mootools 1.2.0 (will be moving to 1.2.1 soon) and haven’t changed any of the hooks (class=”mb”, etc, etc.). Do you know how I can get this working again? I’m using it to load urls for popup youtube streaming. No need for the overlay…
Any help or examples would be appreciated!
Josiah
I wouldn’t know any fixes for the 1.4 rc16 code, but recently John Einselen’s Media Box Advanced was released and it’s 1.2.1 ready. I simply wouldn’t trust the multibox rc16, since until it’s released for end-users, it’s just phatfusion testcode. I just went to take a look to see if it was updated at all from rc16, and it wasn’t.
So try out MediaBox Advanced, it should work similarly.
Thanks Ryan, I checked it out and it works great!
Glad to hear it!