Hi all
As some of you may have seen, umbraco 4.11 ships with a new control, the umbraco:image control. Read more about it here: http://24days.in/umbraco/2012/introducing-the-umbraco-image-control/
I wanted to try and gather some feedback on ideas for extending it, to make it even more useful.
Things that have been mentioned are for example a way to use the alt attribute. Others have mentioned the width/height attributes. So in general, I am thinking that it might be interresting to do something generic for attributes?
The first thing that I've thought, is doing something like this:
<umbraco:image field="myImage" alt="[#title]" width="[#width]" data-id="[#id]" runat="server"/>
This would the understand that attributes that have the [#] syntax are to be retrieved from the properties of the media item that is being rendered.
Would that be a nice way to do it? If the attribute does not contain [#], then it will just be written raw to the output.
Any other ideas/suggestions that you would find useful when using the control?