On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, what we should be doing instead is deprecating the image size, type and
> style properties in exchange for a new semantic system where images are
> identified as primary, figure, aside, etc. (names are just examples). We
> can support both for a long time, and eventually drop support for the old
> properties. We could also interpret common sets of properties within
> certain thresholds as equivalent to semantic names, either on the fly or as
> a mass conversion change.
I support this goal. Some wikis have already made small steps in this
direction with templates. {{Largethumb}} is used, for example, to get
a second "standard size" for thumbnails. The template-based solution
is not terribly compatible with VE.
Right now the only "semantic" markup is using thumb without a specific
image size, which works for landscape-format images only. Moving to a
square bounding box helps encourage broader use of markup without
specific image sizes, which furthers the long-term semantic goals.
But I'd also be interested in seeing a concrete counter-proposal for
semantic markup. Presumably from the Visual Editor UX perspective,
this is just a drop down labelled "Style", along with (presumably)
some discouragement of manual resize. But what would this look like
in wikitext and/or Parsoid DOM?
--scott
ps. although knowing our long-term direction is important, I don't
believe we should let the beautiful future prevent us from making
concrete improvements to the present.
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