Inserting Pictures (Location)

In BlogSpot, any time you insert a picture, it goes at the top of the current post. You then need to drag it around in the Compose window, or edit the HTML.

Even if it's hard to get the Compose editor talking to the upload tool, it should be possible to allow composition of a single post in multiple sections (sections visible to the blogger but joined in the published post).

(XP, IE8)

Inserting Pictures (Path Name Length)

Blogspot doesn't give much space for a path name. Even in one of the most common locations for Windows personal stuff (the user's home directory), you often can't see which file you're about to upload (and the text box doesn't resize if you make the window wider).







Oops!

(XP, IE 8, Javascript with high safety)

Inserting Multiple Pictures (Order)

Often, a blogger will want to upload several pictures and comment on them.

In this case, I'm going to post a series of three pictures. So, off to the upload window.

Note the order I added them in: 1, 2, 3.

Now let's see the order they show up in:

Oops!

It doesn't appear to be a product of the formatting selection (in the Edit HTML window, I see the image tags in reverse order). (screenshot of what the blog looks like at the time of writing is included so the post continues to make sense in the event that they fix the problem)

SideBySide

This post is a demonstration of an issue with preview vs post in blogspot. I discovered the problem (bug?) while trying to post a couple of images in the same article and organize them more formally than seems easy in the normal compose window.


The following SHOULD be a table with two pictures side by side, each 320x240 pixels.







In fact, here's what the preview looked like:
(IE 8, 8.0.6001.18702). You wouldn't think the browser should matter, since WYSYWIG shouldn't be hard to achieve for HTML in the very browser you're about to compare against for final output...



And here's what the final post looked like after publishing, showing that there was more than enough horizontal space to expand into, so it's not a screen width issue (oops):