Sure there are pros and cons, but who does not like it can just do not use it!

There is some code highlighting , line numbering fetchers .... required.

On the other hand, if your just an average blogger who blogs instead of developing blogs you might enjoy this new feature.

Flipping it back the the developers, we all have "gang-star" graphic programs and find this feature useless. So its a mixed bag. Only developers are complaining cause they have no need for it.

Let me flip it to the middle...

Although a developer/designer loath this feature, its a great selling point for a developer to encourage potential clients to spend money with you. So thumbs up for that!

Now that you served the end-user who are the clients of developers, can WordPress now throw us (the web developers) a bone & give use core plugin that give more security, stability, extensibility, etc.?

Thanks

Erskin

I'm sure there are devs out there motivated by what members of the community are interested in seeing, but I have to wonder if the sort of entitlement so many commenters have in this thread makes them wonder why they bother at all.

In any case, I'm glad to see this functionality moving in to the mainline. I discovered Scissors, the plugin that this functionality is apparently based on, early on when I was looking for a way to make it easy for my wife to resize images. She was uploading images and then adjusting the size in the wordpress editor, which led to crummy performance, because the browser was downloading the full sized images and then resizing them.

Scissors came close, but it wasn't great if you decided to adjust the size further later (as I recall, it ended up destroying the original, or at least loosing track of it). I wrote to Stephan, thanking him for the plugin, and suggesting a small improvement that would enable our usecase. We ended up going back and forth and in the end, rather than my half-assed suggestion, Stephan came up with something that integrated perfectly. I told him it worked so well, it should be built in to the product, and now it looks like it is going to be. Congratulations, Stephan!

of course designers/developers can use photoshop and all. and yes security is important. very important.

but i know so many people who don't know how to crop and stuff and those are the people who update the website later... when they upload crap images, the site looks like a piece of s.....t.

the users have voted yes, but the survey was filled with loaded question already. it asked which media features should be implement next.

i am still convinced that even developers will see the benefit of this integration. i am certainly happy about it and i think jane at wordpress has done a tremendous job cleaning up the admin and making it USER FRIENDLY instead of DEVELOPER FRIENDLY like most other systems.

and don't compare wordpress with joomla. joomla is a nightmare for a lot of users with less tech knowledge. completely overrated. joomla is a cms, wordpress is a content publishing tool or even more specific a blogging platform. and matt mullenweg often said, he's never called wordpress a cms nor does he want to go down that way.

that's it for now. happy discussing...

And as for security, WP is as stable as I've seen from most CMS's. They can work on security and features at the same time.

I feel this is a waste of time for WP devs. They should've focused on speed or how to better compete with Joomla.

So what if 40k people downloaded the plugin? Thats a tiny fraction of WordPress installs. If the dev team thought it was such a great idea they could have offered an official plugin.

I sure dont need image editing and will never use it. None of my clients need this either. What we need is secure code.