Base64 encoded images in CKeditor.

[jvmartin]

Base64 encoded images in CKeditor.

[jqr108]

Haha, GitHub comments have drag&drop uploads in their text fields.

[JVMartin]

Thanks for opening this issue, James.

I installed the plugin, but dragging and dropping images into the CKEditor on my Firefox (Linux Mint) still does the base64 encoding. Have you perhaps been able to get it to work on your mac? I'll try it in windows next time I'm there.

I'm also not sure what its dependencies are...

You just need to have a QuickUploader configured in CKEditor and add this plugin, then it will take care of convert the pasted images with Firefox into normal files stored at your server.

I'm not sure what he means by this, because on his site he says that this ImagePaste is just the public version of his paid plugin, but that it should work without any dependencies. Perhaps it just doesn't work with 4.4, it's untested and others were complaining about issues. Perhaps shelling out the 120 euros for the paid version would work.

Another option would be to shell out $290 for this Quick Image Upload plugin. We'd need the ultimate license here in order to include it in a distributed CMS like this.

I still feel like KCFinder works really well for us though, and it might be hairy or confusing to have 2 image upload systems, but I won't dismiss it as a potential solution yet. Users are currently free to drag and drop images and files into KCFinder with no problems, but at least for now they need to be trained not to drag and drop into CKEditor, just into the KCFinder.

[JVMartin]

For now, since CKEditor doesn't support drag-and-drop to upload in a cross-browser way, I'm just going to suggest that we train all clients to use KCFinder. There, they can drag and drop if they want.