Tim Starling wrote:
There are a few minor problems with this:
- It would break horribly if someone tried to use it in GD or client-side
scaling mode.
- It needs mustRender() if it's going to work properly. Otherwise it'll
sometimes produce img tags which link directly to the source file. The OP's MW 1.8 hack would have done this too.
- The source image size messages are bitmap-specific and need to be
overridden for other types of images.
- There's no support for metadata.
- A TIFF handler should properly be multi-page, like DjVu.
Good enough for Kris Coryn perhaps, but not good enough for the core.
-- Tim Starling
Missing parts and full of TODOs is better than nothing. Having it disabled? on svn will attract some disturbed to work on it more than an old email on the archives ;)