Re: enlargeable/clickable images

[Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org>]

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.

Daniel T. Staal

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