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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