I have a cosmetic enhancement suggestion for the Journal. Many of our articles have embedded images that are thumbnails linking to the full-sized version.
E.G,,
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4134#fig1
I was reading an online article today and realized that they were handling this more elegantly, where the linked image opens in a modal window or "lightbox" on the same page.
E.G.,
http://tidbits.com/article/12156
The technique uses a script to open the image in the modal window (usually written using a jQuery or
Prototype/Scriptaculous library) and degrades gracefully to a more normal image link (like we're already
using) when JavaScript is not available (or otherwise messes up).
There would be a small amount of overhead/work in converting our articles, in that most of these scripts require an identifier (e.g., rel="lightbox" or similar) to designate the images that require this handling.
Tom