[Mediawiki-l] Re: Adding IMG Tag Support in 1.4.5 (Jan Steinman)

[Rowan Collins]

On 13/07/05, Jeff Harrington <jeff at parnasse.com> wrote:
> Our users are currently using the Media tag for images:
> 
> [[Media:http://someplace.com/someimage.jpg]]

Yuck! I didn't know there was even a configuration to allow that
(although there at least used to be one that allowed linking to
external images just by typing the URL, because that's what older
wikis did). Two questions spring to mind:

1) Why do you need the <img> tag if you already have this working? 
The obvious answer is that you want to play with its attributes, such
as 'alt' and 'title'. But then:
2) Why do you not want your users to upload images to your own server
(rather than leaching bandwidth from their hosts)? If you did that,
the full range of image syntax would be available to you, you could
deal with security issues, and you could even track what images are
being used...

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]