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Last year I was working on a project that was utilizing the jQuery Cycle plugin for a slideshow and I was struggling to find a compatible jQuery lightbox script which would play FLV videos hosted on the same server (with a built in media player). Unfortunately, the best one I came across was written in MooTools which would’ve led to conflicts. Worried that I would have to re-write the slideshow using MooTools or calling jQuery.noConflict() which I hate, I was relived when I stumbled upon Shadowbox.js, a lightbox style Media Viewer which was compatible with major JS frameworks like Prototype, jQuery, and MooTools. In addition to being incredibly easy to install (when compared to other lightbox scripts), it’s automatically adapts to whatever Javascript framework is being used! Best of all, no conflicts! It also does images, galleries, embedded video, and tons more.