On 03/06/05, Scott T. Emery emery@nas.nasa.gov wrote:
It may be exactly like that, which is why I was hoping therewould be a facility. I *assumed* that the media link would work for mp3s or oggs (as documented) and attempt to play them. I don't want anything to happen to the tarball except that it get downloaded. If I use the media link on an arbitrary file (say, one that ends in .tar or .tgz :-) ) would it just download the file?
All [[media:foo|bar]] does is create a link like <a href="...[path].../foo">bar</a>, so it's entirely up to the browser what to do with it. There's no magic syntax (yet) for doing anything special with audio or video files.
So: * you can upload files of any sort via [[Special:Upload]], but there's a whitelist in LocalSettings.php which you'll need to edit appropriately * once uploaded, you can use [[:Image:Name of file]] to link to the description page and [[Media:Name of file]] to link to the actual file itself * obviously, [[Image:Name of file]] will result in something ugly, because it will try to include the file as an inline image.