[support] Drupal 7: inline images with wysiwyg

[Jeff]

On 02 Mar 2011, at 10:20 PM, Richard wrote:

> Op dinsdag 01 maart 2011 13:23:43 schreef Richard:
>> Op maandag 28 februari 2011 19:52:54 schreef Jeff:
>>> I fear this is a really contentious issue with Drupal, and I'm sure
>>> many people feel as I do that there should be transparent and  
>>> unified
>>> method for providing users with a simple and effective image upload
>>> facility.
>>
>> Ik would be great if the interface would be similar compared to the
>> Wordpress image upload wizard.  That was is very easy to work with.
>
> Yesterday a module was released (a new version of the module) that  
> does this,
> it is called image picker and its url is:
> http://drupal.org/project/imagepicker
> It's a nice module :)

Thanks for that heads up, Richard. It does look very cool, and I would  
have jumped at it 3 or 4 days ago! (Before I discovered "insert"!)

Best of all it doesn't have a clunky front-end, and simply uses your  
computer's browser to locate the image. Then Upload, then press  
Insert, and you're done: )

Almost nothing to do to install and get it up and running, too, and  
the only 'gotcha' I can see is that it puts the uploads into per user  
directories. (The gotcha I'm referring to is when I converted D6  
images to imagefield and the user created nodes lost their  
permissions.) I'm still convinced that users rarely, if ever, need to  
refer back to their old images, and that feature adds confusing  
complexity for end-users. Think about it like with Facebook. You  
create 'galleries' and images are tagged to appear in users and  
groups. But it's not like you ever get presented with the option or  
need to re-insert an image that you uploaded before. (Okay, on second  
thoughts and checking out the Groups and Public options with  
imagepicker, I'll provisionally retract that, as I can possibly  
foresee some use-case scenarios - maybe - but they don't apply to me.)

It's probably too much to hope for consensus, but personally I'm still  
tending towards the very simple imagefield + insert modules. I can  
simply override and scale the image sizes in the imagefield settings,  
so that all my user upload displays are consistent with the site's  
theme.

I'm not the most skilled Drupal user by any means, so please take my  
views with a pinch of salt. But I have been using Drupal since 2006  
and been upgrading along the way from 4.7 to 6.x. Now, to leave the  
upgrade bugs behind (image! yah!), I've decided to start fresh on D7  
and I'm using node_export to bring my content across, and rebuilding a  
lot manually.

I'd love to hear everyone else's thoughts and experiences...