On 8/26/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
Possibly just change the alt (and title) attribute for the image? Have the standard alt (ie. the image page title) or the user-supplied one (if any) and concatenate a notice on the end.
Not great, but obviously harmless and easy to implement. Just pull the add on alt text from a MW message.
I don't know if the copyright symbol conveys the correct message. To me, the symbol displayed next to some work typically conveys that there are (most if not all) rights reserved in relation to that work.
I have to admit I was really thinking post-bug 9616.
We'd then be able to the color of the C depending on the license status of the image. For example, green C for PD/attribution licenses, green reversed C for copyleft/sharealike images, red C for non-free images).... but it's generally a bad design practice to convey important things with color.
There is an argument to be made for a design which results in any confused people thinking they can't use the image rather than that they can... Most of our images have some sort of copyright related implications.
Well, my tests are just hacks really. If we actually implemented something like this, it ought to be done in the software and configurable through a MediaWiki message.
Of course it should be implemented in MediaWiki, but any issues with HTML and browser behavior would remain.
I'm not especially keen on making the entire behavior a configurable message, just the message text.
It might also be useful to create an icon combining a magnifying glass.. since thats the other half of the purpose of clicking on the image. I don't think the current magnify-clip image is at all obvious.