On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > 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.
I thought about this too but I didn't like it too much since it means silk becomes an "API" and we cannot remove it as otherwise we'll break people's pages. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
