I think this is a good idea. Embedding images and other files into a wiki page is something that most wiki engines don't support in a highly usable way. I observed something like 100 kids working with wikis for 10 hours each, on a task that involved a lot of image uploading. Uploading images was one of the most frequent snags that I observed. A typical snag looked like this. * User finds an image he likes on the web, using his browser. * User saves that image to his file system, using the default location selected by the browser. * User goes to the wiki page, and clicks on the upload image button. * The browser starts a file selection dialog, but it starts from a different part of the file system than the part where the user saved the image. * User doesn't have a clue where he saved the image previously and can't find the image anymore. Based on what I have seen, most folks naturally want to do one of the following: * Find an image on the web using their browser, then copy that image from the browser, and paste it into the wiki page. * Find an image on their file system, then drag it and drop it into the wiki page. I know these are hard to do with an HTML text box, but the closer you get to that, the better. For example, could it be that with a bit of JavaScript, the HTML text box is able to know the path of the file that was dragged onto it from the file system? If so, maybe it could then upload that file to the wiki, and insert wiki markup to embed it at the current cursor location? This is not far from what is done in TikiWiki. There, when editing a page, there is a button you can use to browse for an image on the file system. When you select the image file and click on upload, this both uploads the image to the wiki, and inserts wiki markup to embed that image in the wiki page, at the current cursor location. But again, I know that these sorts of things are hard to do. ---- Alain Désilets, MASc Agent de recherches/Research Officer Institut de technologie de l'information du CNRC / NRC Institute for Information Technology alain.desilets(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Tél/Tel (613) 990-2813 Facsimile/télécopieur: (613) 952-7151 Conseil national de recherches Canada, M50, 1200 chemin Montréal, Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0R6 National Research Council Canada, M50, 1200 Montreal Rd., Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6 Gouvernement du Canada | Government of Canada