--- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: <snip> > I recall Judy once said how to get a picture into the post > by dragging, but I have never succeeded in dragging a > picture directly into a post.
(Xeno, you may need to quote this; I suspect Marek may not be reading my posts.) Using Yahoo's Rich Text Editor in Windows, you don't drag it, you Copy and Paste it. Put the cursor in the Rich Text message window where you want the picture to appear. Then open another tab and go to the Web site that hosts the picture. Right-click on the picture and click Copy on the drop-down menu. Now switch back to the Rich Text window, right-click, and click Paste on the drop-down menu. The picture should now appear in your message. (Sometimes this doesn't work, for a variety of reasons I'm not clear on. Sometimes the picture will even appear in the Rich Text window neat as you please, but then when you post it, it will have disappeared. It all works as it should maybe 8 times out of 10 for me.) You can also change the size of the picture if it's too big, by checking the box "View HTML Source" at the bottom left of the message window. You need to find the dimensions of the picture in pixels in the mass of HTML; then you can adjust as necessary by reducing the width and height by the same percentage so the proportions are preserved. You can enlarge it the same way, but it may become fuzzy if the picture was low-res to start with. Uncheck the "View HTML Source" box to get back to the regular message window and see the picture in its new size. You can also move the picture around in the window (center it, move it flush right, whatever) by playing with the HTML, but I'm not sure how to do that. If you put more than one or two good-sized pictures in a message, they may not all appear when the message is posted; there's a byte limit.
