🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Nov 22, 2015 09:01 PM EST:
No, resizing images is not the way to go. It could be done. Game Courier
can already handle resizing of diagrams, whether they are made with one
image or multiple images. But resizing images will not fix problems with
alignment, and it is not a guarantee against the images breaking up. I
would like to replace these scripts with ones that use JavaScript to draw a
single image with a canvas element. This should still use the same images
as the current script, but it would create a single image that wouldn't
break up or get misaligned.
Nevertheless, I would prefer over this a transition to single images hosted
on the site. This makes pages more shareable through social media and may
improve SEO. JavaScript generated diagrams are useless for this.
As for fixing up msdisplay, anyone who inserts an ASCII diagram should
always put it between PRE tags himself. So I'm in favor of not using PRE
tags. Besides that, ASCII diagrams are so 90's. They are ugly and harder
to read than graphic diagrams. So we shouldn't do anything to encourage
them.
What I think I would like is to replace msdisplay with a more sophisticated
content management system. In particular, I want it to handle metadata for
SEO and provide friendlier URLs. Maybe we could modify msdisplay for this,
or maybe we could switch to a dedicated CMS program, assuming we can find a
way to migrate the data.