On Mar 27, 2014 12:32 PM, "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Currently mediawiki constrains image size primarily by width, which
doesn't
work so well for images which are taller than they are
wide. There is no
way to ask for an image which has a height equal to the "default
thumbnail
size" (without explicitly specifying a size in
px)!
It would be nice to fix this. VisualEditor/Parsoid would really prefer to
use a simplified model where all bounding boxes are square, including the
default thumbnail size.
Please see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Square_bounding_boxesfor
two concrete proposals for how this might be achieved,
and discuss!
Thanks...
--scott
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Unless I misunderstand, I cant imagine this going over well with people who
use images. Images are square pretty much never.
If there are issues with how to display really tall images, that can be
worked out. I fail to see why square boxes are neccessary.
-bawolff