Tumblr’s wrong handling of in post images

It annoys me. One of the reasons why I started looking for another blogging platform: Images in posts.

In Tumblr you have the possibility to include images in posts, and also to align them. That seems like it’s doing the job. But it’s done totally the wrong way. Let’s first look at the problem.

Ok, when you make a post with images, like my previous posts. The images align the right way on your blog. But on you dashboard everything images is inline which means there is no text beside it, and they’re all on the left. Also As you might have noticed, on you blog there is no margin on the images, which mean there is no gap between the images and the text which make it look plain ugly, which I hate.

Then people might suggest, and here comes the problem, just define some CSS margins to the floated images.. Well I wish it was possible. The mistake that Tumblr makes is that they include the “align=”right”” property on the image tags. That works but for with CSS it’s not possible, well maybe with the css3 pseudo stuff but I didn’t look in to that yet, to give a margin to aligned img. 

But I also have a solution for this problem. Just give the aligned images a class like “.alignright” and let the theme handle the further styling, just like in Wordpress. Then we have total freedom to style and do all kinds of cool stuff with images in articles.

So please Tumblr, change this, it can’t be that difficult. And if you don’t feel like doing it, just send me the code and I will change it for you :) , no costs.

My nagging for today, Keep Frying!

1 year ago  /  1 note