[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41466: Allow cropping of images from inside the content editor

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#41466: Allow cropping of images from inside the content editor
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 Reporter:  mor10        |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Media        |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 In user testing, several people have requested the ability to crop images
 in the editor context after they have been placed. The expectation seems
 to be that this should be possible, and the abstraction of having to go to
 the edit media panel to do this results in the user having to crop the
 image multiple times to "get it right".

 This suggestion has several significant sticking points:

 1. The idea of cropping images to "fit" within the context of content
 makes no sense when considering RWD.
 2. Users who crop images also expect to be able to uncrop them later or in
 other contexts when the image is reused.
 3. Hard cropping images by changing the file is becoming a somewhat
 archaic practice thanks to CSS masking and cropping.

 Possible solutions:

 1. Provide tools for theme developers to provide display sizes and shapes
 for images in the editor through CSS and take full advantage of RICG image
 scaling (related to #35094).
 2. Allow "soft" cropping through CSS (introduces complications with RWD,
 but better than hard cropping).
 3. Disallow cropping at all.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/41466>
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