Image embedding (was: Re: wikimatrix.org)

[Lukas Renggli]

> When talking about "size", we mean dimension, not filesize or  
> playlenght, right?

Exactly, see my second mail.

> All I'm really asking for is embedding internal and external video's,
> flash, whatever, ... the same way (and with the same code). Right now
> internal uses <object>, external uses <iframe>. That is very
> inconsistent IMHO.

Indeed, this was just a quick hack. Quite ugly all in all, especially  
the guessing of the file-type depending on the extension. A head  
request that is cached would be much cooler.

> I have two proposals:
> 1. extend the link syntax:
> +http://tinyurl/video.mpeg:witdth:640:height:480+

I tried to avoid that, most other wikis do that. Probably there is no  
other way around this.

> 2. Extend PRFile to include more meta information depending on the
> type (eg. a video would have width and height, a Java Applet would
> have parameters, ...

And where do you get this information from?

> Then we make a PRExternalFile that instead of file upload has an  
> external url.

I am lost, could you rephrase proposition 2?

Lukas

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