Clean, elegant, timeless look+feel. Interactions+Immersion could improve a bit

Clean, elegant and timeless look & feel
– The grid is elegant.
– The bubble effect onHover is great.
– It’s minimal, and hence timeless and good.
– This look & feel will age well, my intuition tells me.

Interaction & Responsiveness
– Lightbox is really minimal, UI elements subtle. -> Content is king!
– Next/prev via swipe or tapping arrow-buttons or arrow-keys on keyboard devices.
– Close via “X” or ESC-key or tapping background
– Zoom control really nice
– Double click/tap zooms in to fit-viewport, works perfect on Mobile and Desktop.
– Pinching on touch devices zooms image perfectly smooth to your liking, background zoom factor remains unaffected. Perfection!
– Pinching via Trackpad (on MacBook Pro with macOS 11 Big Sur) zooms image and page in the background. Not completely perfect, but when pinching back to normal zoom level, the effect is gone again.

Immersion factor & interactions could get more perfection
I have created a support ticket entitled “Feature proposals for perfect interactions + immersion factor customizable” in the public support section of the plugin at www.ads-software.com. Linking is not allowed in reviews. Look it up there if interested, summary here:

– Initial zoom factor
— With safe margin -> this is the default, as it is now
— Fit -> The image touches two sides of the viewport
— Fill -> The image touches all sides of the viewport
– More styling options of the prev/next/close icon-buttons for ensured visibility with fullscreen imagery
– Support swipeClose – Swipe gesture on touch devices to close gallery
– Image transition FX
— None, just linear moving (requires pre-fetching of 1 detail image in each direction): A fast “flick-through mode”.
— Fade out/in: The current effect. Possible downside: You shortly focus on the gallery in the background, then again focus on the image which meanwhile faded in. Can be an experience you want or not. We could already mitigate that if we can set Lightbox bg-color to a degree where the background is fully or merely invisible.
— I don’t not need any other FX, as I like the minimalism of Responsible Gallery Grid. But it is thinkable to may extend that over time.