[Wikipedia-l] thumb:namespace

[Daniel Mayer]

>To re-use an earlier idea of mine: There could be a
namespace "thumb:" 
>(or thumbnail or preview or ...), which refers to the
same files as 
>"image:" does, but:
>* It has a fixed width (say, 150 pixel, or "15%" or
something)
>* It could have "special effects", like aligning it
to the right, with 
>the text floating around it
>* [[thumb:xyz.png|text]] would display the
thumbnailed image, with 
>"text" below it
>* It would link to the large image, maybe with the
description from the 
>image: namespace

Oh please no! Forcing images to downsize like that
often results in hideous thumbnails and if I read you
right, will also force browsers to download the
full-sized image just the see the thumbnail. This
might work if the server automatically created a new
image at a certain pixel width and then linked that to
the larger one (in standard 'thumbnail', ‘click image
for larger version’ format. But forcing a 400 pixel
wide image into a thumbnail that is 150 pixels wide is
a bad idea (again, if I read you right). 

--mav


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