https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17398





--- Comment #9 from Michael Daly <[email protected]>  2009-07-06 
18:38:06 UTC ---
Referring to that IRC chat
(http://toolserver.org/~amidaniel/chanlogs/%23mediawiki/20090301.txt), faking
the thumb was the recommended workaround (using a <div to set a size etc).
Faking a frame obviously does the same sort of thing.  Hence it is relatively
trivial to override the intended restriction on the use of thumb.

It seems to me that this faking just adds complexity to the situation (for the
user) whereas just providing the capability would allow the user to do what
they want to do without adding complexity. 

If the objection is to using thumb in this manner as a way of removing access
to the image's page with the attribution and copyright information and since it
appears that the "link=..." functionality is done by invoking ImageMap in some
way (an error can invoke an ImageMap error message - hence my assumption) it
seems to me that this feature should use an additional capability of ImageMap
and just put the info icon (i in a circle) onto the image with the link to the
image's page provided by clicking on the info icon.  This would provide full
use of the "link=..." feature for all extended image options without loss of
direct access to the image's page.  From the user's perspective, we get less
complexity all around and a more consistent rule for the feature's use.


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