Bumpbox is another lightbox clone with a few advantages over other lightboxes – it supports not only all common media types but also PDF’s.

Bumpbox automatically detects what kind of file type you wish to show in the box easing the process of integration.

It has been successfully test with:

• Firefox 3 – 3.5
• Internet Explorer 7 | 8
• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari 3 | 4
• Opera 9.04

Bumpbox uses Mootools. It also uses flowplayer media player for FLV video playback.

For more information: Bumpbox

For those of you looking for a Lightbox clone that utilises jQuery, prettyPhoto provides the answer. prettyPhoto supports image galleries, Flash content, video (including YouTube) and embedding external websites using iframes.

It comes with four themes and has been tested and known to work with Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.1.1+, Opera 9+, and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

prettyPhoto is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. This means it’s freely available for all projects (including commercial projects).

For more information: prettyPhoto