On 8/26/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Any ideas on how to handle this for captionless images and for really small images?
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.
I've added another proposed look to your page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thebainer/thumbtest
The thought behind my proposal is that the universal copyright symbol is more likely to express the importance of the information behind the link. The hand icon signifies something that you can click on.
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've overlapped the image slightly, which may cause some problems in IE... but if we actually wanted something like that style both possible sources of problems (broken z-index handling and PNG transparency) can be worked around.
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.