Dear aidancoughlan,

Thanks for your efforts!

I think the plugin Paul was refering to was the one where you can just drag an image from your desktop into the editor area and that's it!. No need for dialogs to upload your image!

Well, the reason why it is firefox specific is because that browser is the only one that supports copying the image data as oppose to just the image location via a link. We will have to wait untill the other browsers catch up for this feature to be available for them. So the feature is there, we are just waiting on the non-firefox browsers to support it.

Hope that helps

Kindest Regards

Hi Awills,

Thanks for your efforts!
No worries, and likewise - Joomla has some fantastic extension support including extensions like JCK.

Yes, the drag-n-drop feature that Paul mentioned sounds interesting, but I can't help thinking that a more low-tech feature that doesnt need waiting for base64-encoding support in browsers would support more users out of the box. (It won't help me much to replace our authors complaining about the comlicated way of handling images with them complaining that it doesnt work in their browser of choice, or their current version. I also just prefer a click-click interface to drag & drop (I find drag-n-drop messy if working with full screen windows as most normally do). I actually tried the drag-n-drop feature in the demo & it didn't work for me, but realise I wasn't using firefox at the time, I'll try it again to see how it feels.

I would be much more interested in something that would seem to be possible, and which I think Paul may have been hinting at when he suggested:
"We could create a plug-in that on click opens a file dialog to select an image, then it could auto uploads and inserts it into the article. The framework is there to do this but it will probably take a day to develop. "

I'm not sure if this is on the plans for JCK, but I'd love to know if it is. Really users want to be able to put their cursor in a Joomla article, click "Insert image" & be presented with an operating system file browse dialog. Then when they double-click the image in the file browser have it appear in the article - sized based on some default configurable width - If forget the sizes, but 600px may work for a lot of templates?. The image should already transparently uploaded in the background, unknownst to the user to some nominated folder on the server - perhaps user-specific to segregate images... perhaps to a sub-folder whose name comes from the article ID or article name or something like that.

This would be a relatively simple process for the user. I'm not a web/joomla developer, but it seems to me it would work across all browsers, and probably across back-versions of browsers. Am I dreaming ?

Aidan.

Hi folks, just checking in again, have their been any developments in the image upload functionality since, or any in the pipeline?

Yes there has been development in this area and in JCK 5.0 you will be able to drag and drop and upload images into the edtitor from your desktop in Firefox and google chrome and if you are using Mac you can use Safari.

Kindest Regards