Testing The New WordPress Uploader

After seeing one of Tellyworth’s comments on the wp.com site to upgrade flash if you’re having problems uploading I thought I would try it again. Lo and behold, it worked today. Confused? Me? Not much! I did get an error but the file seemed to upload ok.

I might upgrade flash anyway, just to see what happens and if it improves…

Can’t say as I like all the crap that gets put in with the image though:

alt="" title="wplogo" width="130" height="130" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1097"

What the hell is that? Why can’t the options just put in align="left" like the old system did?

While I’m on moaning about WP, I really don’t like the way that either editor inserts all the extra carriage returns when you hit the “blockquote” button. I don’t know if it’s a WordPress thing or the sucky TinyMCE editor (that’s turned off!) that’s doing it but it really gets on my nerves!

Oh, and why did you have to make the “updated” section at the top of the screen flash? It was great as it was where it started one colour and changed. The flash does my eyes in!

Next, if you’re previewing the post after making changes to the text, make sure you save the post first or the changes aren’t saved. Why not make the “Preview this post” button save the changes at the same time?

Petty I know, but everyone else is moaning so why can’t I?

Collin on April 11, 2008 | Filed Under Words

4 Comments

Adcuz  on April 11th, 2008

It doesn’t put align=”left” now as that isn’t valid xhtml.

Collin  on April 11th, 2008

Thanks for the info. That’s all well and good, but I would prefer something that isn’t valid and works to something that is valid but doesn’t!

Adcuz  on April 11th, 2008

Why does it not work? Have you got float:left added to the class “alignleft size-full wp-image-1097″? might be worth making your own class named alignleft with float:left in it. That’s what I use.

Collin  on April 11th, 2008

Standard insert from the Media Manager puts all that guff in automatically in 2.5 – it’s not me adding it I promise. No, I have no float in there.

It’s not working as when the image is aligned left the text wraps nicely. Using the WP Method it doesn’t.

You’re absolutely right that I could do that and define a custom class for it but I would still have to modify the html inserted by the media manager. At that point I might as well just delete the crap and make it align left. It works. In every browser.

And no, I don’t really care about valid xhtml. The page displays correctly, where’s the problem?

I have yet to see a decent argument for me ensuring that my (x)html validates on a personal blog.

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