On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Bartosz DziewoĆski <matma.rex(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Please don't. The current syntax is nice, concise,
consistent and not
overflowing with special characters. The proposed one is verbose and
"looks technical".
The current syntax is actually hard to machine-parse, with lots of
language-specific overrides and weird options that combine in non-obvious
ways. Not to mention that it overrides the simple link syntax... I wish
when we'd renamed Image: to File: that we'd left the magic behavior only on
the Image: alias so that links would be rationalized. :(
Keep in mind also that in the glorious unicorn-filled future most people
who aren't doing low-level template work will rarely see the markup.
They'll just push a button to insert an image.
But defaulting to thumb seems like a good idea to
me (but we ought to make some usage stats first :) ).
Yeah... changing existing behavior gets scary. :)
-- brion