Re: [xwiki-users] Use image popup as default behavior

Hi Mario, That’s a good point. It would be interesting to allow plugging different ways of rendering images. Actually this is already possible but requires some technical knowledge. We have a XHTMLImageRenderer component role. Right now we offer a default implementation in the DefaultXHTMLImageRenderer class. To be more precise we have different renderers depending on the type of the image (icon, datauri, standard, etc). The standard impl is in DefaultXHTMLImageTypeRenderer (which implements the XHTMLImageTypeRenderer role). So technically, if you want to change how images are rendered all you need to do is develop your own component that implements the XHTMLImageTypeRenderer role, package that as a JAR and deploy it in your xwiki instance (by making sure you set a higher priority than 1000 for your component). See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingComponents for more details. Now it would be nice if we could provide an implementation that does something similar to what wikipedia does and that could be configured from the Admin UI. I don’t know if that’s possible but using a custom XHTML Renderer for images might be simpler IMO and would allow you to do exactly what you want to have. You could open a jira issue as an “idea” type maybe. It would be nice to know what other xwiki devs think about the idea above. Thanks -Vincent