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fancybox vs SVG.js: What are the differences?
Developers describe fancybox as "JavaScript lightbox library for presenting various types of media". It is a tool that offers a nice and elegant way to add zooming functionality for images, html content and multi-media on your webpages. It is built on the top of the popular JavaScript framework jQuery and is both easy to implement and a snap to customize. On the other hand, SVG.js is detailed as "A lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG". The lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG. It has no dependencies and aims to be as small as possible.
fancybox and SVG.js belong to "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by fancybox are:
- Looks great on every device
- Swipe to navigate, spread/pinch to zoom in/out supported on touch devices
- Supports most popular sites as YouTube, Vimeo and Google maps out of the box
On the other hand, SVG.js provides the following key features:
- Animations on size, position, transformations, color,...
- Painless extension thanks to the modular structure
- Various useful plugins available
fancybox and SVG.js are both open source tools. SVG.js with 7.85K GitHub stars and 909 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than fancybox with 6.65K GitHub stars and 1.63K GitHub forks.
