Image syntax

[Angie Ahl]

2 things I'd like to ask.

1. Should markdown really do images at all? Isn't markdown about 
marking up text. At least that's how I currently use it. Images are 
done by our CMS.

2. Couldn't image dimensions be got by something like Image::Info or 
ImageMagick, that's what we do.

The syntax we use is:

[image="1" link="5"] where the image and the link no is got from a link 
manager and image manager.

This has many advantages, such as links in the link manager can be 
checked for 404's etc and Images can have different versions created by 
ImageMagick. Our system goes and gets alt text, captions and dimensions 
from the image manager.

Markdown could get dimensions from images that are available locally 
and readable by the script. If an image isn't available locally that 
would be harder (you'd have to copy the image to the server to get the 
info I reckon) does anyone here actually call images from an external 
server, and are you doing so legitimately as in not nicking someone 
else's bandwidth.

Thoughts?

Angie