What a marvellous plugin! Great work, Stefan! I hope you don't mind my sharing a few immediate thoughts in all my excitement.
Your plugin is in some ways similar to Leandro Vieira's Lightbox plugin. http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/ , but yours is more customizable. What I love about Leandro's plugin is in particular two things 1) The way you can press either half of the image to go to next/ previous image. That means you don't have to move the mouse as much. You also support keys, so I guess the need isn't as big in your case. But it would be a great feature, manye users don't think of using the keys (yet). 2) He only preloads the next image. While preloading is great, it also generates a lot of wasted traffic, particularly on pages with loads of images. Would you consider makeing this optional? Or is the functionality heavily based on the images being preloaded? Finally, would you consider makeing the plugin "standalone", not having to include the other "common" EYE tools? Again, thanks for a great plugin! Best regards Erlend Schei :)