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    What happened to 'lightbox'? What made you try to come with a new term for this? Commented Mar 14, 2020 at 14:21
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    What is exactly the reason you are looking for that name? Because that can have impact on the resulting answer. Call it a media viewer, preview, theater etc. to name it after the purpose it has, no matter in what way it is viewed. Or call it a lightbox, modal, popup etc. if it is important to communicate the specific UI component, no matter what purpose it has. Commented Mar 16, 2020 at 8:01
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    Lightbox as a term is older than js library with the same name (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbox). And it too might be misunderstanding and should be called Light table (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_table). Commented Mar 16, 2020 at 8:44
  • Media Viewer is good. It tells the user what it does Commented Aug 11, 2021 at 8:21
  • I use Slideshow. Commented Dec 4, 2022 at 9:17