It is still as you describe.

We have plans for embedding resized images anywhere you want in a post, but it's not implemented yet.

Any idea how far off this is? My users want to embed pictures, like a typical news article has, and I can't expect them to make various sizes of each one before writing the article (when GD can do it for them).

I've been looking at different programs for doing this. WordPress seems to have a pretty nice system. With Drupal you can make a decent system but it doesn't come with core.

Just a suggestion: when you do this, provide it all in one shot. IMO people want to upload a picture and embed a smaller version that links to a larger (possibly original one) in one process. Sure you can have one routine to upload the file and then have to refer to that location when you put it in the post, but the ideal system would give you an editor where it at least seems that you are uploading it right into the post.

I haven't spent a lot of time looking at the various HTML editors out there but I suppose the ability to 'upload into the post' is dictated by how the editor is written (I'm assuming you're not writing your own editor). In Drupal I've set up ckeditor and it's pretty nice but you have to upload the image and then copy/paste the URL for it into the 'insert image' box of the editor. It's not hard, but it's just annoying that one part of the screen doesn't seem to know about the other.

Predefined size limits (for normal blogs) should be available, too. So if you upload an image it automatically goes to 300px wide or whatever looks good in that particular skin.

Just thinking out loud.

One thing we do in ours -- is to set the skin to a max-width and height so the picture will never break on the layout.

Then - you can also use the width and height properties to shrink the picture... not perfect but works.