thumbnails

Alper and I were thinking about thumbnails in makeinfo's HTML output.

The simplest approach we could think of is to say that if foo-thumb.EXT
exists for some @image{foo}, output the usual
  <a href="foo.EXT"><img src="foo-thumb.EXT"></a>

That way, authors don't have to do anything to the source in order to
get thumbnails in their HTML output, if they want them.

It does hardwire the foo-thumb convention.  An additional approach could
be to add yet another optional arg to @image, specifying the thumbnail
name.  But I'd just as soon wait to do that until an author actually
wants/needs it.

The width/height arguments that @image already supports are really
orthogonal to this, and useful basically only for dvi/pdf output, where
the page size is fixed and where the natural size of the image can't be
easily changed.

Comments, criticisms, suggestions about this idea?

Patrice, does texi2html support (or have plans to) thumbnails?  Of
course it'd be best to do something compatible, if so.

Thanks,
k
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