[pmwiki-users] Attachment size

[Patrick R. Michaud]

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.

Pm