Image syntax

[John Gruber]

Mark Lawrence <lawrence at unified-eng.com> wrote on 07/27/05 at 3:23 pm:


> I know this is a cowardly thing to say, but if it were me, I'd punt  

> on the image syntax and simply expect people to do what John  

> describes above. Unlike section headers, lists, quotations, emphasis,  

> and the like, images are not part of text-only communication. 


It's not cowardly at all. It's quite a bold statement, in fact.

I just think we can do better. I do prefer writing this:

    <img
        src='http://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/07/vancouver-weather-1.png'
        alt='Screenshot of the Weather widget, after typing ‘Vancouver’.'
    />

to the current Markdown syntax, but I'd prefer writing this even more:

    <http://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/07/vancouver-weather-1.png>
    (Screenshot of the Weather widget, after typing ‘Vancouver’.)

-J.G.