![]() ![]() That way most photographers who only want to display their photography in their portfolios can have the best performing gallery, and photographers who need the additional features aren’t left out.Unfortunately, the image gallery used by XenForo ( lightGallery) doesn't only seem to have blurry rendering issues on Android, a broken back button behaviour and erratic pinch-to-zoom-support. Instead of forcing one plugin over the other in the Easy Photography Portfolio plugin (and our WordPress Themes) – I’ve made a decision to bundle both plugins with our products. In my experience, most photographers don’t need video support or don’t care all that much for gallery thumbnails. Which gallery did I choose for Easy Photography Portfolio? ![]() Not a big deal for me, since Easy Photography Portfolio is using jQuery anyway. There is a clear delay when swiping between photos, especially on mobile devices. For developers: easier to plug-n-play than PhotoSwipe.It has a very good feature vs performance vs easy-of-use balance.The support is there, and with the recent lightGallery 1.5.0 update the performance has improved quite a bit: While it’s possible to hack your way around it – let me tell you from my experience – just don’t do it. I’ve tried to work around that in the past. So if you want video and/or thumbnail support in your popup gallery – you can’t use PhotoSwipe. I think that lightGallery.js is exactly what Photoswipe would become if it added support for videos and thumbnails. lightGallery.js – the most balanced and versatile jQuery Lightbox If that’s what you want – it’s the perfect image gallery for you. Personally, I don’t even want Photoswipe to add support for those extra features because it would just add bloat to the plugin and would probably force the author of the plugin to make some compromises. The plugin lightweight and optimized for a specific use case and it lacks video and thumbnails support. There is one downside, but only for some. In designs that support it, it has a beautiful gallery opening/closing transition.Extremely responsive, both in “responsive web design” sense and in that it never freezes or hiccups.It feels native on mobile devices by providing full touch support.I have mostly nice things to say about PhotoSwipe: That’s a small additional bonus, in case you’re building a jQuery-free website. PhotoSwipe is an excellent photo gallery written in pure JavaScript. PhotoSwipe is the best gallery for Photography If you’re thinking of including videos in your gallery or you desperately need thumbnail support – you need to take a look at lightGallery. ![]() Photoswipe falls short on the feature availability side. So if you only need a Photography gallery without thumbnails or videos – I definitely recommend using Photoswipe over anything else. The code for PhotoSwipe is a lot more polished and performance oriented. I’ll go over the differences between PhotoSwipe and lightGallery below, so keep reading if you want the full picture, but for those who are impatient and just want the best gallery right now – PhotoSwipe vs lightGallery.js Which is the right photo gallery for you? Retina (high resolution) display support.Full-screen support for devices that support fullscreen API.Smart image lazy loading (images are loaded from the server only when necessary).Modern, clean and intuitive user interface.The two plugins I recommend using are PhotoSwipe and lightGallery.js and they both include a few that both plugins have, that many other lightbox plugins lack: Either that or they look like they were developed back in 1999 and some are. However, I’ve found that while many plugins lack some basic features that many photographers are looking for. Most popup gallery plugins support images and allow easy navigation between images. In this post, I’m going to go over the similarities and the differences. They’re both a little different from each other, and yet very similar. With all the trial and error by trying different gallery scripts, I think I’ve finally found the 2 best popup gallery scripts out there. ![]() We’ve been making web designs for Photographers for years, and over that time I’ve tried almost every single JavaScript lightbox popup gallery that there is. ![]()
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