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fancybox vs Cesium: 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, Cesium is detailed as "A javascript library to build 3D globes and 2D maps". it is used to create the leading web-based globe and map for visualizing dynamic data. We strive for the best possible performance, precision, visual quality, ease of use, platform support, and content.
fancybox and Cesium can be categorized as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.
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, Cesium provides the following key features:
- Open Source
- 3D Maps
- 3D models
fancybox is an open source tool with 6.36K GitHub stars and 1.58K GitHub forks. Here's a link to fancybox's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Cesium
- Fully interactive 3D and can dynamically switch to 2D.1