Downscale pasted images on image upload

Problem to solve

When making a screenshot on Retina displays (very common nowadays!) and pasting the clipboard to text area, the image looks like upscaled 2x.

Here's what it looks like on my retina display:

but it should look 2x smaller:

Proposal

Use HTML <img> tag for image pastes and specify width=xxx the attribute. respect use display ratio and specify downscaled variant not actual image dimensions.

NOTE: from my experience specifying width is enough.

here's what I usually do by manually fixing the image scale

-![image](/uploads/c049a04f0d5211ac61930359ec22a821/image.png)
+!<img src=/uploads/c049a04f0d5211ac61930359ec22a821/image.png width=692>

2024-01-26 Update: Seems something has changed markdown in my issue to this (don't see any change history of the performer)

![](/uploads/086fe1508c1f70df71039f5a3f89d78c/image.png){width="282"}

More info on stack overflow:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49074666/changing-image-size-in-markdown-on-gitlab/74906593#74906593

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