On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.comwrote:
Please don't. The current syntax is nice, concise, consistent and not overflowing with special characters. The proposed one is verbose and "looks technical".
The current syntax is actually hard to machine-parse, with lots of language-specific overrides and weird options that combine in non-obvious ways. Not to mention that it overrides the simple link syntax... I wish when we'd renamed Image: to File: that we'd left the magic behavior only on the Image: alias so that links would be rationalized. :(
Keep in mind also that in the glorious unicorn-filled future most people who aren't doing low-level template work will rarely see the markup. They'll just push a button to insert an image.
But defaulting to thumb seems like a good idea to me (but we ought to make some usage stats first :) ).
Yeah... changing existing behavior gets scary. :)
-- brion