[pmwiki-users] Attachment size

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:10:07PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:49:51PM -0400, Pico wrote:
> > Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > >On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:50:00AM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> > >>At 2006-08-03  10:32 AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> > >>>>>>Is there any way of displaying the file-size of an uploaded file? 
> > >Oh!  Here's a thought -- what if we overload the "alt-text" field
> > >of links to allow the specification?  So:
> > >
> > >    Attach:file.txt"size"         -- display with file size
> > >    Attach:file.txt"date"         -- display with last updated date
> > >    Attach:file.txt"type"         -- display with type
> > 
> > But would that interfere with providing captions for attached images? 
> > Would it break markup like this:
> > 
> > (:description %thumb%[[{$FullName}|Attach:HaleyDog.jpg"{$Title}"]]%%:)
> 
> No, it wouldn't interfere with this -- we would only change the
> meaning of "alt-text" for non-image attachments.  Attachments that
> result in inline images would continue to work as before.

What about links to attached images?
Could one do something like the following?

[[Attach:mybigimage.jpg"%size"|Attach:mybigimage_thumb.jpg"My big image"]]
 
Kathryn Andersen
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