Functionality: Copy and Paste pics from the Interwebs?

Burra Maluca wrote:testing...

It seems to work if you right click the image, then select an appropriate size to display, right click the new image, select 'copy image location', and then paste that in to the pop-up that appears when you press the

Hm. So this is the process:

1) Find interesting image
2) Click around until one finds the exact url if it exists <<BARRIER TO ENTRY
3) Copy URL
4) Come back here
5) Check/Change insertion point
6) Choose a badly-labeled HTML tag to insert image <<BARRIER TO ENTRY
7) Deal with popup (not allowed by many browsers/security programs)
8 ) Click OK
9) Try to figure out HTML code: is it in the right place? Will it look OK? <<BARRIER TO ENTRY
10) Test/submit

instead of

1) Find interesting image
2) rightclick, COPY
3) Come back here
4) rightclick, PASTE
5) Test/Submit


... as I said, there aren't a lot of pics on these forums and this is the reason why. One process is twice as long and absolutely requires specialized technical knowledge; the other is commonly used around Teh Interwebs and most image-enabled programs. Results of current system: frustration, lack of expository information, userbase not as engaged, but nobody needs to worry about upgrading the system to this functionality or educating on the new functionality.

I'm glad that the Permaculture books I learned with weren't this difficult to access.

John Polk wrote:I am using Firefox browser, others may vary.

I went to Wikipedia, found a picture, and right clicked it.
I chose the "Copy image location" option.
Came back here, & opened this "Reply".

Then I clicked on the Img button, hit my paste button, and the picture magically appears in my post.

If it was any easier than that, it would probably be illegal

Burra Maluca wrote:You could always upload photos directly to Permies. That way you won't have to worry about Flickr at all.

When you're making a post, click on the 'Attachments' tab underneath the box you enter text in and browse til you find the file you want to upload.

Copying and pasting pictures from the internet isn't really an option. Like John said, it's not really legal so forum software doesn't allow for it.

P Thickens wrote:

1) Find interesting image
2) rightclick, COPY
3) Come back here
4) rightclick, PASTE
5) Test/Submit

John Polk wrote:
I went to Wikipedia, found a picture, and right clicked it. <== This is what P Thickens mentions as step 1
I chose the "Copy image location" option. <== This is step 2
Came back here, & opened this "Reply". <== step 3

Then I clicked on the Img button, <== a step which isn't mentioned in P Thickens' expected way, to point to images
hit my paste button, and the picture magically appears in my post. <== step 4

Jaikiran Pai wrote:So if I understand this correctly, the only step that differs is clicking on the img button. Is that what your concern is?

Burra Maluca wrote: I'm guessing that creating a what-you-see-is-what-you-get set up for posting forums is going to be exceedingly time consuming, heavy on the processing power, and completely crap for anybody that has a different sized screen to the one the original poster uses.

Burra Maluca wrote: The whole board is run and programmed by volunteers - I guess if a suitable volunteer felt like offering his services to produce the WYSIWYG set up then maybe Paul would consider it, but I suspect it's not really a good idea even then. Are you offering to go on the team of volunteer programmers?

tel jetson wrote:flickr hides jpeg urls. if you found an easy way to copy and paste flickr photos on another forum, I hope you'll share it.

Burra Maluca wrote:Whoa - whole thing just went straight over my head...

Andrew Monkhouse wrote:Can you show an example of forum software that has this capability? If so, then we may be able to work out what they are doing and retrofit it.

P Thickens wrote:

Andrew Monkhouse wrote:Can you show an example of forum software that has this capability? If so, then we may be able to work out what they are doing and retrofit it.

vBulletin's WYSIWYG is the most prominent I know of.

Leila Rich wrote:   Cool, I'm learning more new stuff!
Is linking to the original site the only way to access the magnification/slideshow blahblah on the flickr site that PT linked?

Jean Eisenhower wrote:There’s no such thing as a right click on Apple products.