On 9/9/06, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Thank you for selective snipping, in this way a solution to your long argument was removed. To recapitulate, we can have options for under the left mouse click. Think solutions please.
If you make clicking on the image do the expected thing for navigation uses, then you obscure the attribution. Hiding the attribution behind an abnormal procedure would be a failure to provide attribution, hiding the navigational use behind an abnormal procedure would fail to aid navigation. I did address this directly in my reply.
Further, it would be quite infuriating and not at all user friendly for Wikipedia to further override the browsers normal behavior. (making right click, or modifier-click (recall not all computers have two mouse buttons) do something other than bring up the browsers menu)... Not to mention the accessibility problems, and browser compatibility issues.
Some time back (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-May/035663.html) I'd proposed we simply create a new type of image tag such as:
[[Imagelink:Foo.jpg|100px|Foo page]]
Here is an example of what such a tag would look like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/example
No one seemed to oppose the idea, but no one implemented it either...
I believe this would be an adequate solution for the semi-navigation images which are used on portals.
Pure navgational images are another matter. But should probably be solved by just calling them from the site's CSS.