[TYPO3-dam] New extension "damlightbox" - sounds interessting?

[Torsten Schrade]

> Hi,
> 
> I'm just wondering what search engines think about light-boxes in general.
> Will they index the the text you show with each image in the light box?

SEO is one thing, accessibility is also very important. If somebody has 
JS switched of for whatever reasons, it's the end of the lightbox story...

> .... wouldn't it be an option to open that's better for seo to open the 
> photos on a completely new page and display the text there?
> 

Luckily, it's already done like this :) In the background all images are 
typolinked using an alternative pagetype. Only due to JS you see this 
external page within pmkslimbox. Check it out directly and with JS 
switched off:

http://www.regionalgeschichte.net/index.php?id=2321&content=7783&img=0&type=313

So on this pagetype the content element and it's current image together 
with the metadata is displayed. Behind the stage a normal TEMPLATE 
object is used for display, so you can easily adapt the HTML. When you 
use realUrl (like we do int he project), you can translate the links to 
something nice. So Google & Co should be happy...

Greets,
Torsten