[phpws-comm-auto] [ phpwebsite-comm-/mod/article-1052105 ] Feature Request: Images for Summaries

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Submitted By: rck (rck000)
Assigned to: Eloi George (adarkling)
Summary: Feature Request: Images for Summaries

Initial Comment:
I'd like to have images on my front page, like inside 
sections. But with a special feature: They should only be 
visible on the front page, not inside articles.

The link would lead inside the article all the time

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>Comment By: Eloi George (adarkling)
Date: 2007-07-03 16:35

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This feature is available in Article Manager 4.0, due to be released by
July 11th.


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Comment By: rck (rck000)
Date: 2004-11-13 21:45

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actually, I don't think that html area is a good solution. I
can include a img tag in my summary right now. but then,
that image would be shown in my actual article as well, not
only on the summary page, which would take away a whole lot
of flexibility.

besides, including the img tag in the text would take away
the possibility of using a distinct "section template" for
the summary as well. you know, the stuff where we show the
created by stuff, etc. won't be affected at all by the img
stuff. and that's the whole intention behind it.

you'll see the images in the search result as well, wether
you want them or not! I'd rather have the ability to decline
users from using img tags by themselves alltogether.

I already get nightmares by just thinking about on how the
newbies you referred to in the popular article refactoring
thread abuse the html area... Bah, I won't be able to sleep
tonight.

to me, the summary is just another section, like all the
others. so, instead of showing the "summary textbox", why
not just show yet another section box?

where exactly is the difference?

I even think, we should scrap the html area in sections and
restrict editing to:

- anchor tag
- ul / ol / dl tag
- li tag
- em tag for emphasis

...that's about it! no colours, no hard breaks, nothing.
maybe a code tag would be nice as well.

and do p /p around each paragraph... Everybody needs to have
dreams...

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Comment By: Eloi George (adarkling)
Date: 2004-11-12 22:06

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Adding image selection to the summary would require adding 4
textboxes, a button, image preview and template select list
to the form.  The editing form is pretty complex as it is. 
Adding all these extra things would make it unuseable.

In addition, the extra processing to show the summary would
put extra load on the server on homepage, FatCat, and Search
results views.

Once we find an editing solution like HtmlArea or Kupu that
will work reliably & work for blind users, these problems
will be bypassed. 




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Comment By: rck (rck000)
Date: 2004-11-12 16:47

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Category thumbnails aren't flexible enough for a per-article
thumbnail. In fact, I don't like them at all. I'm talking
more about a "article tease". There is demand for that
feature, the two replies to the announcement on appstate
(http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=847)
eren't made by me.

Why complicated? Just upload yet another image, give it a
caption, an alt-tag, that's it. user-wise, it's rather
straight forward. 

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Comment By: Eloi George (adarkling)
Date: 2004-11-07 23:06

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I can't think of a way to do that that won't make the
editing screen much more complicated.  There would have to
be a lot of demand for that feature before I can justify
putting that in.

Have you explored using the category thumbnails?


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