When you click on the "Member login" link on the Text Link Ads site or respond to a comment through the admin section of a Movable Type installation, you'll be presented with a new form in a slightly different manner than you're probably used to: instead of being sent to a new page, or seeing a popup window, the current page darkens, or "greys out", and a form appears immediately overlying it. It's a really neat way to keep the user in the current page context, and it neatly gets around the growing tendency for users to suppress popup windows.
They both do it with Lightbox Gone Wild, which is an adaptation of Lokesh Dhakar's Lightbox project. It's a very easy technique to pull off... link to three script files and one stylesheet in your main page; create a second page containing the code for your form; and then put a link to the second page in the main page with a class of "lbOn". Complete instructions can be found on the Lightbox Gone Wild page.
I know that cfwindow offers some of the same functionality, but it seems to me that cfwindow can't achieve the same level of flexibility as Lightbox.js can. For instance, I think cfwindow is somewhat more limited in how much of it you can style, and is also limited in whether forms in the dialog area can target the whole page.
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