It would be useful (at least for me) if one could specify
(using a [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]]) where the image links to.  For example,
on <http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/sidebar/> I'd like to have the
logo link to \[[hurd/logo]] / <http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/logo/>
instead of linking to the PNG image file.  --[[tschwinge]]

> Done, use link=somepage --[[Joey]]

It would be handy if the `class` and `id` tags were passed through to the surrounding `table` in the case of `caption` being present.  Would this break anything?  --[[neale]]

> Seems unlikely to break *too* much. I can imagine css that styles the img
> unexpectedly applying the table. --[[Joey]]

[[!template id=gitbranch branch=kjs/img-sharpen author="[[Kalle Söderman|kjs]]"]]

I have created a patch that allows the image to be sharpened when resampled.
There is also an additional option to interlace the image using plane for
progressive display. --[[kjs]]

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Is it possible to give an external image URL, must the image be local? One use case would be displaying *badges*, like [[the number of stars|https://img.shields.io/github/stars/joeyh/ikiwiki.svg]] of a [[github project|http://github.com/joeyh/ikiwiki]], but ``\[[!img https://img.shields.io/github/stars/joeyh/ikiwiki.svg]]`` does not work: [[!img https://img.shields.io/github/stars/joeyh/ikiwiki.svg]]. --[[Louis|spalax]]

> Eventually wrote my own plugin: [[plugins/contrib/rimg]]. --[[Louis|spalax]]

>> All the markup formats supported by ikiwiki can do raw HTML (possibly
>> filtered), so you can use `<img>` for basic remote images; or you can
>> use your chosen markup format's image syntax, like
>> !\[some stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/joeyh/ikiwiki.svg)
>> for Markdown. I don't think ikiwiki directives should duplicate markup
>> formats' features unless it makes a significant difference to functionality
>> or usability. --[[smcv]]

>>> I totally agree. I never think about using HTML in my markdown documents,
>>> and I did not know the `!\[Alt text](image url)`. Anyway, this plugin took
>>> me less than one hour to write and publish; I will delete it soon.
>>>
>>> Anyway, thanks for your answer. --[[Louis|spalax]]

>>>> Considering how limited Markdown is, I frequently struggle with
>>>> this `img` limitation as well. My last fight was adding a caption
>>>> to an image. Sure, this can be done by hand, but I stumbled upon
>>>> Ikiwiki's lack of CSS support for `figcaption`. And it's kind of
>>>> annoying to have to write all that `<figure>` stuff by hand when
>>>> there's a `caption` parameter to the `img` tag... It would sure
>>>> be useful to be able to reference external URLs, even if it means
>>>> thumbnails are turned off... --[[anarcat]]