system to maintain initial image

[adam-zethraeus]

What do you think would be a good API to preserve an initial image in the HTML?

downsize("", {words:0, keepInitialImage:true});

[adam-zethraeus]

I'm going to start work on this today or tomorrow since it seems to be a blocker for merging anything new into ghost.

[cgiffard]

Sorry, I've been flat out. I'll have a think about the best way to tackle this tonight — let me know if you get started on it, so we don't end up double-handling. :)

[ErisDS]

Bump :) Would looove for this to be resolved even if it's just a temporary workaround with the condition that I remove it when Ghost no longer needs it 😉

[adam-zethraeus]

i'll take another look shortly.

[adam-zethraeus]

next on my plate if the cleanup (#16) goes in! :)

[adam-zethraeus]

It looks like the two cases this would have to deal with are markdown output matching:

<p><img src="..." ...></p>
and
<p><a href="#"><img src=".."></a></p>

[ErisDS]

It currently works for video as well I believe.

[adam-zethraeus]

oh good point, thanks!

[cgiffard]

I want to extend the parser to support tag types rather than regex it. If we merge this we should have a followup to do it properly. :)

[ErisDS]

I think you can close this issue now. I have a plan to reproduce this feature inside Ghost, so that we can upgrade to a newer version of downsize. I don't think it's really the job of downsize to maintain what was a bug.

Also, by having it internally in Ghost, we can properly manage deprecating it once we have equivalent functionality done in the right way.