Re: enlargeable/clickable images

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

> On Oct 26, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10/26/22 1:44 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:
>>> On Oct 25, 2022, at 11:31 PM, Bernhard Donaubauer <bdonauba-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> These are links, not embedded resources. --self-contained is for embedding resources. I don't consider it a bug.
>>> 
>>> Yes these are links but links to local resources. Image files that are in the same directory as my MD file.
>>> As far as I know the current browser generation has support for DATA URI in the href attribute, so it's
>>> technically feasible.
>> Do you mean
>> <a href="data:...">link text</a>
>> This didn't work when I tried it.
>> In any case, I don't think what you're asking for is consistent with the documented and intended behavior of --self-contained.
>> Note that --self-contained embeds BOTH internal and external images. Why should it behave differently if it were extended to links?
> 
> Because a link isn't garunteeded to be an image - or even a single file.  It could be dynamically generated, an index, a 3-hour video, or pretty much anything.  (And owned by pretty much anyone.)  All we know is that it's an external resource that we're linking to.

Just to be clear: I’m not arguing that —self-contained should embed the contents of external links.  I’m saying it would be inconsistent to make it embed the contents of internal links, but not external ones, because it doesn’t make that distinction for images.  I’m not in favor of any link embedding (nor do I understand how we’d achieve it technically).

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