Short description
It would be nice to have more control over graphic-files with are included via attachment:graphic.png and then displayed automattically by MoinMoin. Once I made a announcement for a workshop in our wiki-intranet and I placed a nice image on top of the page. It would have looked better, if I could center it, not just align it on the left.
Dokuwiki offers here some functions (see: http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:syntax#images_and_other_files). In DokuWiki you can decide on the displayed size, the alignemt (left, centered, right) and the tooltip text. Mediawiki offers by default thumbnails with a link to see the picture in real size.
Things like HTML-Code
- align=top / middle / bottom
- align=left / right (centered as block)
would be very useful.
Maybe also having the possibility to use an image-map could be a nice feature, e.g. if you want to display an organigram, where the user could click through the different hierachies to the homepage of a person.. But that's very advanced and maybe too much for wiki-markup. But more control on display size, alignment and text float is - comparing to other wiki engines - a must..
Just an example from Nirs Homepage
||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.85em; background: #eeeeee; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding: 1em;":> attachment:moinmoin.png||
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-- ReimarBauer 2006-08-09 20:34:30
Thank you, Reimar! That seems already to work with MoinMoin. Wouldn't it be possible to add to the MoinMoin-Help pages a page on graphics and alignemt with code samples (HelpOnGraphics)? For you as an insider, that seems not to be a problem. But less experienced users who are not experts on MoinMoin and HTML coding do not get the idea, to use "HelpOnTables" as "HelpOnGraphicsAlignement"! Besides that, on the page HelpOnTables there isn't a singel clou that you have to use tables to align graphics.
That's right. Someone should start to contribute a help page on that on MoinMaster. Some explanations and some examples or some questions helps others to understand what's needed to be described. If you start I do continue and some other may do too.
Update: I've added a proposal of a help page concerning inserting the images. See /HelpOnInsertingImages if you are interested. You can use it freely if you think it's worth it.
Resizing images and offering tooltips on display still seems not to exist in Moin. Or can I do it also with the html coding inside the table? Again: a page HelpOnGraphics wouldn't be a mistake. Surely I am not the only person, who asks this. I have also found another FeatureRequest aiming at the same topic (Moin can't ... Mediawiki can...). We could stop that annoying questioning by creating this new help page.
Example for resizing and tooltip:
see HelpOnMacros/ImageLink
Last to mention this: tables do oppose obstacles to blind peoples in reading web pages. See Web Content Accessibility Guidelines of W3C http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrierefreies_Internet (German site). We are not blind, but others are, we should not forget that... In our office at the university, we do have a blind colleague. Before I started working there, all that wasn't a topic to me... To built a wiki, that's accessible to all, also the disabled, should be a goal of MoinMoin,too. I don't know how the graphic alignment stuff through tables is affected by that..
We need to think more on that
Thanks!!! Keep on developing Moin! I love it!
see http://master19.moinmo.in/HelpOnImages
Related Topics
See MacroMarket Image.py for the ability to resize and provide alt-texts for images
For positioning: ParserMarket/Frame
For positioning: SectionParser