On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 18:57, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'd like to propose 3 things: > > 1) Add support for symbols/emoticons using our new system in XWiki Syntax > 2.1, i.e. > > image:symbol:<symbol name> > > Another possibility is: image:icon:<icon name>
+1 for icon > > ex: image:symbol:success (for the success symbol) > > 2) Use the existing silk icon library and be able to reference all icons > using their file names as the symbol name. > > For ex, image:symbol:thumb_up > > 3) Modify the Box macro to accept a ResourceReference as its image parameter > so that all valid image resource references can be specified (including the > new symbol/icon scheme). +1 > > WDYT? > > This will solve the emoticon/symbol need + the generic way of adding a box > with any symbol. > > Open questions: > A) Do we need to handle icon size? If so, how? (answer: with an image > parameter) > B) Do we want to expose all silk icons? What if we use another library later > on, will we be able to support all existing silk symbols? Thus, do we need to > pick a subset and settle on names independent from the underlying library? > > For A) IMO we don't need it now and we can always use an image param later on > if need be. In a case of a list of well known icon you find find in many places i think it's better to always download the same and not resize it server side, that way it will be in the browser cache most of the time. And you can still resize it client side. > For B) I'm tempted to think that a set of well-known symbols independent from > the underlying library is better (but more work since we need to define that > set and the names). Another possibility is to have image:silk:somesilkifilename. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
