No way to inline an image URL

[Alec Thomas]

Previously, simply inserting an image URL would inline the image. This has recently changed (not sure why?) and it no longer seems possible to display URL images inline at all. [[Image(<url>)]] does not work either, as it appears to only accept attachments.

[Emmanuel Blot]

Alec, I think this is a duplicate of #3374.

It seems however that using a URL instead of the Image macro is a regression, as it is not possible to define style for this kind of image (position, size, …). I might be wrong.

[Alec Thomas]

That ticket is related, but not a duplicate.

The crux of the matter is that it is no longer possible to display images by URL. Ideally the Image macro would do this.

[Christian Boos]

The code in the Image macro could be cleaned-up and simplified, I have a few ideas about it, but this will have to wait for 0.11.

[Alec Thomas]

Should this really wait until 0.11? Inlining images seems like a fairly fundamental thing, particularly as it used to work.

[Christian Boos]

Well, yes a quick solution for adding http: could be done for 0.10.

I was talking about a more general solution for interpreting any kind of links, using wiki_to_link or similar, and that should wait for 0.11.

[Christopher Lenz]

Oh, I thought the [[Image]] macro supported external URLs. That's what this ticket is about, so let's fix it for 0.10.

[Christian Boos]

Ok, implemented in r3533.

[simon-code@…]

Just reviewed and tested the changeset at [3533]. There is an external linktype I'm missing for much of our use - https:

Would it be OK to change the lines in question to:

                elif id in ('http', 'https', 'ftp'): # external URLs
                    raw_url = url = desc = id+':'+file

[Christian Boos]

Yeah, ok but after that, let's wait for the much needed refactoring of the wiki parser and macros ;)

[Christian Boos]

https: added in r3549.