I've noticed that most of the image functionality at WP.com doesn't work on either Firefox or Safari on OSX. The images show up, and clicking on them brings up the small "menu" for the picture, but dragging and dropping only works in "rich text" mode, which doesn't work on OSX. The only way to bypass this is to right click on the image and copy image location, to paste the image link manually into the post. The flickr integration is an awesome feature, (even better integrated than in flock), but alas, I am again relegated to the crappiest options because I chose a mac...:roll:

Hmm... I recently did some cross-browser/platform testing of the image stuff on Windows and OSX, Firefox, IE, and Safari. I thought the dragging worked in Firefox, but I'm not near my test results at the moment. The rich editor doesn't work in Safari at all. Apparently, there are some issues with crashing. As such, you don't see it when you use Safari with WordPress. If you drag photos into the plain textarea, most browsers fail to insert anything, some just put the link URL (not the URL of the image, but the link that surrounds it) in the box, which isn't very useful. There are obviously still some kinks to work out. I think the final solution might be to have a button next to each photo that inserts the appropriate image markup at the cursor location. This would likely be most compatible. Unfortunately, it's not as glitzy.

But you guys are doing great though! As I said, I knew what I was getting into when I bought a mac :P I wasn't really being scientific, but I tried again: While using the rich editor in Firefox 1.5 RC1, on OSX 10.4.3, I can write text and add pictures, and resize just like in your screencast. But upon publishing the post, none of the content is saved. This means I get a post with the correct title and categories, but none of what I wrote, that's all gone. bye bye, adios! So my problem was really more with the whole post page wrather than the picture functionality.

What is WordPress.com? It's a free blogging service that is powered by WordPress MU, a multi-user version of WordPress that is based on the upcoming 1.6 version of WordPress. Currently, because the software used at WordPress.com is not quite finished, there are only two ways to get a WordPress.com account: 1) Get an invitation from someone who already has one. 2) Download the new Flock browser and visit the WordPress.com site. I think that about sums up WordPress.com. Check out faq.wordpress.com where there are answers to other questions.

Wow! That is freakin' NEAT! I still don't understand what Wordpress.com is about. LOL Or how it works.

Oh cool...thanks. I'll have to check it out. :-)

By the way... Nevermind. The Flickr functionality is removed from the latest WordPress SVN. It may be only a matter of time before it disappears from WordPres.com, too. skeltoac tells me there's a plugin to restore it, but I have not seen it yet.

When I first saw the image media box on the wordpress.com Write Panel, I was sure it was your brilliant work - and I found out that Andy was behind it. I'm glad you two got together with your amazing combined brilliance to add this great feature! You're a star! Thanks.

Fickr dissaperar from Wordpress? wow. I never use it before since my blog is text about my opinion. Maybe I'll try later.

Thought you might be interested in a plugin that does something similar for WordPress 1.5+ users, and also lets you search by username and/or tags: http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wp-flickr-post-bar/

Hi I love the idea but I can't find the flickr button anywhere - has it already gone? Rich

Yes. See comment #12.

Nevermind, I should look at comment #12 too.

As I said in comment #16, see comment #12.

Has this feature been implemented? I don't see the Flickr option on wordpress.com anywhere.