Is there a way to get a modal to load an external URL (technically internal in our case, but we don't want to have all of the divs preloaded into the page that has the link to the modal as we will end up having 100s-1000s of these and that will get the page size way too big if we have to keep the divs in the page calling them)? An example of what I mean would be if I had a datatable with 500+ line items that corresponded to users. We want to have an action button in the column that will load a modal that would contain a profile of that user, which could easily be 1k of data, making the modals alone generating a single page of 500k+ in size.
Skip this. A bit of digging into FancyBox revealed how to do it. Nice choice on FB for the modal; turns out it has just the right amount of functionality.
Looking forward to Lukas making it back; as we've got some more in-depth questions about the theme for him.