Thank you Gideon! I agree that is frustrating. To tell you the truth I have largely stopped voting and submitting ideas because of the lack of execution.  ... View more

 @James ​ Thank you! I am new to this community, and appreciate the discussion, I edited my post above to remove the reference to downvoting. ... View more

 @James - I wrote my reply above before I saw your updates and this post. I think the issue of creating clutter in the Canvas "files" could be solved pretty easily by putting the pasted image files in a logically named folder. For example, if a pasted image is put in a quiz titled "Linear Functions", the image could be placed in a folder structure that reflected where it is like: module/quiz/Linear_Functions/images. Grabbing a particular image could be done from anywhere (including the content page it is on) because all you would need to do is copy/paste. A solution for the stale image problem could be some sort of garbage collection that identifies when an image is not used. Or just allow people to manage the space they are allocated. Another possible solution to your concerns are caps on the sizes of individual files to ensure a speedy load. I appreciate the discussion and scrutiny. I do believe, though, that this is a feature that would be very beneficial and that it should be explored by the developers to find an acceptable implementation if one exists. ... View more

stefaniesanders- Although I disagree that it would necessarily degrade students' experience, I would ask that you reconsider your vote to allow the developers and engineers to explore the feature and determine if there is a way to do it without the negative impact. ... View more

James - I'd like to address some of your concerns. First, although the image size can be about 33% larger when stored as data URI, gzip mitigates most of that, resulting in an image about 1-2% larger. Images will not necessarily take longer to download. Many sites are encoding all of their images as Data URIs as a way to minimize HTTP calls. In today's world the bottleneck tends to be the number of concurrent HTTP calls, not sheer bandwidth. Yes, the whole image must be downloaded before it is displayed, but you are overstating the issue by looking at an extreme case. Yet even in that extreme case, I clicked on that image and it displayed as close to instantly as I can tell. Caching is not defeated - only caching the images as separate files. Since the image is encoded in the page, the image is cached as part of the page. Again you are overstating the issue when you speak of bandwidth. The redefinition of what "broadband" means has no bearing in this discussion. I had no issue loading this page, yet the image I posted in the original post was pasted into the rich text editor. I don't believe the whole Internet should look like image-less Craigslist postings because we are concerned about bandwidth. Your Facebook example is just as absurd as the statement I just made. 2G Tuesdays exist to simulate Internet consumption over cell phones in 3rd world countries, not exactly the average use-case for Canvas. As I said in the original post, there are many sites out there that use this feature successfully - including this very one. I trust that if there is a way to do it successfully (as there obviously is), the good people at Canvas can figure it out. This is a feature request that will be beneficial to content creators. I don't care how it is implemented. Your suggestion of automatically saving it to a file should be one of the avenues that are explored. Let the people at Canvas explore the idea to see if there is a way to do it with little to no effect to students. ... View more