What jQuery modal popup or lightbox plugin works in IE7, IE8, IE9 Firefox, Chrome, Safari?

Question

We're looking to put a popup login window on the screen while dimming the background and disabling mouse clicks to it.

We're using jQuery, and this is a Rails 3 application, and we're looking for a lean plugin.

It's been bafflingly difficult to come up with a framework that supports IE7 and IE8 equally. The other browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE9) haven't posed much of a problem.

We'd also like to avoid using background image overlays, if possible, due to lateny concerns. For the same reason we don't want to load the whole effects library, if possible.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Wolf

Solution

Colorbox is what you're looking for.