[TYPO3-core] Have there already been plans for an integrated image editor?

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi Roland,

Roland wrote:

> Have there already been plans for integrating an image editor into the
> TYPO3 core? if yes: what major problems prevented the implementation?

I guess the main problems are the fast changing APIs of the graphic 
libraries which makes maintenance a nightmare.

Second I think an image editor would add more bloat to the core which might 
not be used that often. Offline image editors are way better in terms of 
quality and resulting size than we can ever hope to archive on the server.

Thus I would prefer this to be an own extensions on forge that can be 
updated more often than the TYPO3 core.
On the other hand, I would like to see that the image processing powers are 
handed down to the editor and are not solely for integrators.
But how many editors actually use the image manipulation options which are 
already available in the image element?

Cheers
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