何时使用灯箱效果？

Question

We've all seen the popular lightbox effects on the web (e.g. JQuery Lightbox and Shadowbox). Yesterday I got into a discussion with a client who is completely enamored with lightboxes and wants to use them every time a form is submitted including:

• Login forms - click the login button and the lightbox appears with the user name and password fields
• Customer Inquiry forms - Lightbox appears with a "thank you" after form submission
• Registration forms - Lightbox appears with a "thank you" after form submission

I want to know when people think lightboxes should and should not be used and why.

Answer 1

Lightbox's intent is to highlight a certain element (like image, graph, etc). I personally dislike HTML pages popping up in the browser, but some users may like it.

Personally, I would use it for images only.