On Mar 27, 2014 12:32 PM, "C. Scott Ananian" cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
Currently mediawiki constrains image size primarily by width, which
doesn't
work so well for images which are taller than they are wide. There is no way to ask for an image which has a height equal to the "default
thumbnail
size" (without explicitly specifying a size in px)!
It would be nice to fix this. VisualEditor/Parsoid would really prefer to use a simplified model where all bounding boxes are square, including the default thumbnail size.
Please see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Square_bounding_boxesfor
two concrete proposals for how this might be achieved, and discuss!
Thanks... --scott
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Unless I misunderstand, I cant imagine this going over well with people who use images. Images are square pretty much never.
If there are issues with how to display really tall images, that can be worked out. I fail to see why square boxes are neccessary.
-bawolff