Last modified: 2011-12-22 01:21:37 UTC
At the moment the imagemap extension uses a hard coded information icon as link to the image description page. I propose to allow user-defined images as information icons too: <imagemap> Image:... rect ... desc bottom-right [[Image:icon.png|20px]] </imagemap> Aadvantages: 1. Nicer contrast dependent on the image 2. Projects with a non-latin script can use a character/sign in their script (cyrillic, CJK, ...)
For this kind of UI element I'd strongly prefer to keep it consistent. I don't see much reason for per-use customization in this way, and the per-language issues would not be very well served by this.
I expect languages that don't use question marks might prefer a different icon. It seems best to consider allowing different icons as part of i18n for the extension. Per-use, maybe not.
There are two internationally used information symbols that are language independent. The italic lower-case i on a blue background and the circle with a question mark contained. If there is a real need for alternative, language dependent versions, perhaps a set of them should be distributed with the extension and a reference added to the i18n file to convert from language to symbol - e.g.: 'en' => array( 'imagemap_icon' => 'desc-20.jpg', ... 'xx' => array( 'imagemap_icon' => 'xxdesc-20.jpg', ... Something tells me the languages that would not recognize the "i" or ? symbols as used in airports and such would be rare.
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