How to resize images included in GitHub documentation pages?

Question

I have a README.rst page on GitHub but I am unable to specify the size of the linked images and really I don't want to include them in my repository.

See https://github.com/pycontribs/jira

Somethink like this was supposed to work, but GitHub seems to ignore the width parameter.

.. image:: http://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/files/2015/12/PyCharm_400x400_Twitter_logo_white.png
    :width: 100px

Any solutions or workarounds?

Answer 1

It looks like GitHub is intentionally stripping images sizes. The do appear, however, to support embedding raw HTML (reST docs). If that still doesn't work, I'd resize the image files.