Never met a lightbox I didn’t like
| Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | --Sean |
We've covered enhanced shortcut modules in Yahoo! Search before, but the new module for musicians is the first to really do something that surprised me. When you search for a particular group's name, a big ol' box with pictures and links pops up above the first result, except now it includes a set of music videos that you can click on. When you do, instead of sending you over to a new page, the video player actually pops up in a lightbox, which is very cool looking if nothing else.
I also noticed that we improved our lyrics shortcuts a little while back to allow you to get lyrics for a particular title, a nice improvement over the previous behavior that only allowed you to get shortcuts based on artist names.
EDIT: Wow, as mike pointed out in the comments, I somehow entirely missed the coolest feature of this module: you can play the 30 second samples of the artist's most popular songs inline on the search page. That's really sweet.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Awww, no in page lightboxes for Firefox on OSX.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Oh, really? Heh, I should test these things more carefully. What happens in OSX?
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Firefox on OSX still takes you to the Yahoo Music page. Oh well. I love the song samples though! It’s like previewing on iTunes, but much faster than the itunes servers
August 3rd, 2007 at 8:07 pm
They’re sniffing based on user-agent, if you set OS X Firefox to the Windows UA string it brings up the lightbox but the video won’t play correctly.