[pmwiki-users] improved markup for floating images...?

[Ed W]

Patrick - I need a bit longer to digest all of the above - but I think 
if you simply pasted most of this into the wikistyles page I (and 
presumably the rest of the world) would have realised just how much more 
powerful they are than I ever realised!

Just a few random thoughts quickly:

- I think you will need to lift some of the nesting restrictions with 
this strategy or else we can't have images with borders inside certain 
tables (because the div syntax can't currently be nested in an advanced 
table?) - Personally I would love to see it possible to nest *advanced* 
tables.... (They are advanced after all...)

- The style stuff looks great actually.  I never realised that you could 
do so much.  The wiki styles page only hints at what is possible, and to 
be honest I can't get most of the styles I want to work because I'm 
fighting how the style becomes HTML, whether the HTML is then correct, 
and getting the syntax right or else the style doesn't seem to do 
anything at all... This email has opened my eyes though...

- Finally I can live without proper thumbnailing, but it's a nice to 
have for some projects.  I think it could be done more easily by having 
the attach syntax only return a direct link to the file if there is no 
size specification - otherwise it is handled just like when you disable 
direct downloads.  The trick would be to write the file with the name 
encoding the resized dimension and then we have both the orig file plus 
arbitrary number of cached resized versions of the file.  So in this way 
we just check once whether the resized version is available and generate 
it, after that we can just serve up the resized file from disk.  Make 
any sense?

Thanks - will complete my thoughts later

Ed W