On 13/08/07, Emanuele D'Arrigo manu3d@gmail.com wrote:
I thought this could be useful to extend the wiki way of doing things to images, especially SVGs. The history interface would remain the same but the browser would put the two images on two different layers, one obscuring the other, and a simple button would allow (ideally through javascript) to swap the two quickly. Of course a standard diff would then be available to inspect the differences in the actual code if the image in question is SVG.
What do you think?
I think it sounds like a good idea, and likely very easily doable.
On a related note; I was recently poking the image reversion interface, and (as anyone who read the code will see), I originally planned to show the two revisions side-by-side to allow for comparison. The reason I didn't do this at the time is that I couldn't find an effective way to quickly transform an old version of a file (needed for things like SVG, etc.), and I couldn't get hold of Tim Starling to pester him, so I left it commented out, more or less.
Rob Church