Designed to view full-size photos and images inline without requiring a separate web page load, FancyZoom's raison d'etre(French for "raisin-determination") is providing a smooth, clean, truly Mac-like effect, almost like it's 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 Apple's own site!), such as the popular (and inspiring) Lightbox. So you might be asking: "Cabel, why use FancyZoom?" Well, here's 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 3's "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.)

Since FancyZoom is so easy to add to a web page, I encourage you to give it a try!