[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27195: Disappearing image captions on pasted images from Google Docs

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#27195: Disappearing image captions on pasted images from Google Docs
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 Reporter:  TobiasKjrsgaard  |       Owner:  azaozz
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Editor           |     Version:  3.8.1
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  worksforme
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Changes (by azaozz):

 * status:  assigned => closed
 * resolution:   => worksforme
 * milestone:  4.1 =>


Comment:

 As far as I understand, the problem is that TinyMCE 4.x disables pasting
 of image source (base64 encoded) inside the post text. This is a really
 bad practice. Makes the post huge and very inconvenient to load for the
 site visitors (1MB image is usually about 1.2MB base64 encoded, that's
 roughly 200,000 words), and is very search engine unfriendly. Also this is
 not supported in all browsers.

 Images in Google Docs don't exist on the Internet. They are local to the
 document and cannot be inserted anywhere else by using the <img> tag. To
 properly use images from there, the users will have to upload them to
 their site and insert them into the post from the Media Library, same as
 any other image. This means there will be several more steps while writing
 but will ensure everything works well.

 There are WordPress plugins that "catch" these base64 encoded images and
 save them properly, then replace them in the post content. If somebody
 needs to paste images from a word processor or Google Docs regularly, that
 would be the best solution.

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