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Drupal Voices 49: Nate Haug on Image Handling in Drupal 7

Team Lullabot
September 23, 2009
  • Artist: Lullabot
  • Title: Drupal Voices 49: Nate Haug on Image Handling in Drupal 7
  • Album: Drupal Voices
  • Year: 2009
  • Length: 12:34 minutes (11.55 MB)
  • Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Nate "quicksketch" Haug talks about the efforts that he led to get image handling into Drupal 7, which includes the Drupal 6 equivalents of filefield, imagefield and imagecache which were made possible after the foundation of CCK Fields in core went in.

Nate talks about:

  • The core development process that he went through
  • The remaining image handling tasks that got a code freeze exception
  • The input format changes and what that means for the future of WYSIWYG
  • The future of Image as nodes
  • His motivation for helping improve the user experience of Drupal
  • And the future of security in providing image handling to untrusted users.

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