I just had a thought, what if it also had the option to copy the image to the clipboard? That might be more troublesome, but it would mean I could paste them into chat windows that support pasting images.

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The image itself instead of the markdown? That should be doable.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah the image, then you can paste it into say, a hangouts chat, which isn't going to support markdown. It'll attach it as a image upload typically.

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 2 points 2 days ago

You can write images to the clipboard, it supports PNGs, and if an image isn't a PNG we can just ask pict-rs for it (append ?format=png at the end, this does't work for gifs though)

So yeah, seems very much doable.

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