Last modified: 2014-03-14 22:16:27 UTC
Wouterstomp at en.wp has requested that the media settings dialog shows a tumbnail/preview of the image so you can refer to it while writing the caption. I would add to this that ctrl+click on this preview image should load the media description page in another tab/window.
Is this meant to be a preview of the media item as it will render in the page (i.e., a live-updated view of the configuration options from the dialog)?
I don't think the original commenter had particularly thought of that, as the only thing you can currently do is write a caption. The idea being that you can refer back to the image when writing it. This will be even more useful I guess when you can used this dialog to write alt text. My gut feeling is that a live preview would be nice but not essential. Possibly implement a static preview and then see if anybody asks for it to be made into a live preview. Assuming a live view is more than trivially harder to implement than a static one.
(In reply to comment #2) > I don't think the original commenter had particularly thought of that, as the > only thing you can currently do is write a caption. The idea being that you > can refer back to the image when writing it. This will be even more useful > I guess when you can used this dialog to write alt text. > > My gut feeling is that a live preview would be nice but not essential. > Possibly implement a static preview and then see if anybody asks for it to be > made into a live preview. Assuming a live view is more than trivially harder > to implement than a static one. I believe that the hard stuff here will be in showing anything at all (and, particularly, anything that looks like how it will render in the page). Will check about live-updating, though.
