I like HtmlArea and its easy dialog for inserting and uploading images, but miss some of the power of img_assist.
It would be great if HtmlArea's 'insert image' dialog would copy some of img_assist's functionality :

- The ability to select a resolution with which the image must be inserted.
- The inserted image always is a link to the image node, so you can see the full version by clicking on the image

Also I'd like it if I could specify float:left or float:right, so that the text wraps around the image.

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gordon commented
Category: feature » support
  • You can resize the image in the actual window, Just select the image and resize as you would in word.
  • You can create a link like this by selecting image and then adding a link. I didn't want to do this automatically as not everyone wants it, including me.
  • Selecting alignment can be assigned by selecting the alignment when editing image.
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eveltman commented

Hello Gordon,

- I misunderstood img_assist's resolution settings when inserting an image. I thought img_assist would
create a new variant of the image in the image module if I selected a resolution that didn't exist.
Instead it sets the src of the image to the original image, with width and height set to what was entered.
That doesn't differ a lot from what htmlarea does when resizing the image ;-)

What I still /do/ miss from img_assist is the ability to insert the /thumbnail/ of the image.
Actually, that's what I do nearly always. Would be great if that option could be added.

- It would be much more user friendly/ergonomic if there was f.i. a checkbox to wrap the image
in a link to the image node. I like this a lot, because I usually insert a thumbnail of the image,
so the users can click on the image to see the full version and navigate to other
images in the gallery.

- I didn't realize that I could achieve the same thing with alignment instead of float:right/left.

I would be very grateful if you could add these 2 checkboxes, because for me they are the only
reasons left to go to text mode and use img_assist.

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gordon commented

Just so you know, in the future I am plaining to make a change so that when you insert and image, on submit it will convert the <img> tags to the image module filter tages so that you can modify the size. What it will do is pass parameters to the server so that it will send the image that is the closest to the image that is going to be displayed.

I need to do alot of javascript inside the upload image plugin so that it ill convert to and from the image filter tags.

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gordon commented
Title: Copy some of the img_assist functionality to htmlarea module » Add functionality to img_assist to use Xinha
Version: 4.5.x-1.x-dev » master
Category: support » task