Designed to view full-size photos and images inline without requiring a separate web page load, FancyZooms raison d’être (French for raisin-determination) is providing a smooth, clean, truly Mac-like effect, almost like its a function of Safari itself. Since I originally wrote this script, there are now a lot of image zoomers to choose from (including a similar effect now on Apples own site!), such as the popular (and inspiring) Lightbox. So you might be asking: Cabel, why use FancyZoom? Well, heres why!
Focused on the smoothest, most polished zooming animation possible
Automatically scales images from any image link, with no HTML changes
Preloads full-size images in the background on link mouseover
No resource-heavy Javascript libraries — 100% coded from scratch to zoom
Draws a nice drop shadow under the full-size image to offset it from the page
Uses Safari 3s box-shadow feature to draw the drop shadow natively, no images required
Requires only two new lines of code in your HTML
Tested and works with Safari, Firefox, IE7, and IE6. (Looks better in modern browsers.)