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rAyVoLvEz
05-07-2007, 04:21 PM
As a perennial and longstanding supporter for Lokesh Dhakar's JS Lightbox(http://www.huddletogether.com) since version 1 lightbox, I feel so gutted and in fact to the extent of astonishing disgust and distaste when I saw this.

http://www.tomodo.net/PDOX.php

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/1713/lightboxripperqe7.jpg


...... is the first to make use of the ‘Lightbox’ image gallery. (This also ended up being used here)

I'm truthfully flabbergasted by the phrasing of the statement.
Who wrote the 'Lightbox' Image Gallery? It was Lokesh Dhakar, not some Tomodo Designs who could only create tables and charges gobsmacking slashed low prices for websites and graphics. And the above statement is not meant as a attack, but matter of fact.

And looking at the way the scriptaculous and prototypes are included via view source is the website, makes me roll.


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>**************</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

<script src="js/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="js/lightbox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<style type="text/css">
body {background: #000000 url(BG.jpg) repeat-y fixed center;}

</style>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#AAAAAA" link="#AAAAAA" vlink="#AAAAAA" alink="#AAAAAA">
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>************</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>.....................</html>

Double <html>, double <head>, double <title>, double<meta> and double doctype definition!!!

And so I'm supposed to believe that Tomodo Designs wrote Lightbox?!?!

Where is the credit to Lokesh Dhakar, the one and only original lightbox creator?!!!


And Btw, I stumbled upon this only because of a comment in Lokesh's Lightbox thread, check comment #883 in http://www.huddletogether.com/2006/03/29/lightbox-v20/

Apparently someone has stumbled upon it too and well.. This is not condone-able!!!

[Edited on 5/7/2007 by rAyVoLvEz]

PM
05-07-2007, 04:27 PM
yeah, actually i saw it as well...

i think everything that ray says is true! i completly agree...

every justice must be made, and Lokesh deserves it...

i think this place "rippers exposed" is very cool and all the justice is made here...

and yes, the codes are a bit "strange"...

cheers :cheers

paradox
05-07-2007, 04:54 PM
he doesnt mean ever! he means in tomodos work liek first time he has used it ....

paradox
05-07-2007, 04:58 PM
also ray i see no credit on ur site, i think u also got the wrong impression of what tom wrote

mkeefe
05-07-2007, 04:59 PM
I can "kind of" see what you are saying paradox, but that isn't how I read it. Unless he puts "my first time using ..." it is going to be be read as if he developed it.

I even thought the same thing, and of course this isn't directed to you but a rip is a rip even in coding.

That being said I sure hope he updates that page before this hits a more popular circuit.

Update
Ray never makes claim to writing it, or am I suppose to credit Zend for using PHP next? Not 100% the same thing.

Matt

[Edited on 5/7/2007 by mkeefe]

paradox
05-07-2007, 05:03 PM
but its not the point if u read the whole thing its saying this is the first time being use there ( BY HIM )!!!! lol

i dont see that as rippin to be honest i dont even want to start a fight or argument over it, but its simply sayin its his first time makin use of the light box and incoprating it into my site

mkeefe
05-07-2007, 05:04 PM
No "The first to make use of the lightbox script" should be "The first site I developed to make use of the lightbox script" ...

paradox
05-07-2007, 05:05 PM
ok ill grt him to change it, why do u (ray) always have to pick out the smallest things to cause problems for MOI!
:cheers

rAyVoLvEz
05-07-2007, 05:08 PM
An email was sent to Lokesh about using his lightbox script and even thanked him on his lightbox thread (http://www.huddletogether.com/2006/03/29/lightbox-v20/) Post Number #781. (posted on October-26-2006)

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/3632/credittolokesheo2.jpg

And as Matt says, it is not the same thing. Agree fully with Matt.

[Edited on 5/7/2007 by rAyVoLvEz]

paradox
05-07-2007, 05:21 PM
yup thats kl well u coul dhae sent me an e-mail over a petty little 2 lines

mkeefe
05-07-2007, 05:25 PM
This thread is being locked, all has been said.. lets keep it friendly. :)

Your friendly neighborhood admin - mkeefe