On Die, 2002-12-03 at 16:20, Magnus Manske wrote:
External images are Evil(TM). Either a [[tex:]] namespace, or you generate them in the upload directory somewhere and use [[image:]].
What's the point? The TeX can be directly edited, it doesn't need its own namespace or to be stored in an image namespace => waste of space and user confusion.
External images are evil because they can be abused or disappear. Here the files are local, and the LocalSettings.php contains the path where the autogenerated TeX images are stored, so this can be easily made an allowed URL for "external" (i.e. non-namespaced) images.
Regards,
Erik