On mar, 2003-01-07 at 10:37, Magnus Manske wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
- Smaller versions of images should be auto-generated in a separate
directory similar to the math/ directory used for texvc's images. The small versions would be viewed on the article where the [[Image]] tag is included, whereas the image would link to the original size version.
Two items with this one:
- A thumbnail should be generated upon upload, so we don't have to wade
through thaton every page display,
Note that this dovetails nicely with automatic rasterization of SVG images at both screen and printer-friendly resolutions. Comments, please: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG_image_support
- The image page content should be included by default below the image
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That will break almost every layout! Try a 100-pixel-image, aligned in a table or a div, and put "<br>This is a very long description that will break every damned layout on wikipedia!" behind the image...
Better yet, try http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet ...
- It is somewhat counter-intuitive to have the caption rendered
implicitly on a page that includes an [[Image:foo.jpg]] tag. The alternative would be to do away with image pages as regular content-pages altogether. (Realistically, having a separate image namespace may have been a bad idea in the first place.)
I'm not clear on what this means. The suggestion appears to be to make captions more intuitive by eliminating the ability to edit image captions? I don't think I'm reading you right. :)
We'll have to think about what image to use on "printable version" - the thumbnail to keep layout, or the large one for resolution?
The large one, obviously. We can give pixel-width and height of the thumbnail so the browser lays it out at the same logical size.
I'd be willing to give the autogeneration a try, if no one else volunteers.
For an alternative mechanism of handling images, see http://nupedia.com/article/long/Polymerase+Chain+Reaction/ (RIP), which I hacked some centuries ago ;-)
I generally find tiny tiny tiny tiny thumbnails of diagrams to be simply _annoying_. They're like end-notes that contain vital information, forcing you to go off on a wild goose chase to see what should have been presented to you immediately.
Rather, I'd prefer that the small inline versions still be large enough to be useful and informative.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)