Lightbox using tags or <a href=[base64]>

Question

Is there any lightbox implementation that allows using <a href=base64-string" instead of an actual url?

Answer 1

You only tagged javascript, however if you can use jQuery you could use fancybox to achieve this with little work:

$("a[href^='data:image']").each(function(){
    $(this).fancybox({
        content: $("<img/>").attr("src", this.href)
    });
});

Code example on jsfiddle

Answer 2

Yes I think you can use Slimbox. It has it's own LinkMapper function. This allows you to return any url you want, based on element you are working on at that moment. This is javascript, so you could do an ajax request or whatever kind of link you want to return.

So yes, you need jQuery for this one, but I think there is a Mootools version as well. Have a look at it.