He is using an iPad, it does not have a mouse. I don't know what the equivalent is, if there is one.
Judy's comments below: --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- 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. >
