[pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Using relative links and images in url markup

[chr at home.se]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:11:33AM -0400, Radu wrote:
> > After I found about InterMap (like a month after I started playing with 
> > pmwiki, to my shame), I never understood why people wanted the 
> > [[/something.jpg]] form. InterMap is way more flexible, and it's already 
> > there.
> 
> Only because [[/something.jpg]] is fairly intuitive -- it's what people
> naturally expect to be able to use to create a (relative) link to a
> resource at the same server url.

It's probably been mentioned, but using an intermap it's easy to make e.g
 
	[[host:something.jpg]]

point to "http://www.pmwiki.org/something.jpg". In a similar manner, I
could imagine defining

	[[root:something.jpg]]

to result in a link pointing to "/something.jpg". And from 'root' it's a
short step to simply writing 

	[[/something.jpg]]

assuming you're used to *nix :-)  For PC-people, I guess they might expect

	[[\something.jpg]]

to work that way ;-)

/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr