UI questions from a newcomer

Development User Interface
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I was showing Plone to my clients/colleagues and one of them asked the following:

  1. Why is the Change Note field visible on the (classic) add form? If no one enters anything into it, the value shown in the item history is "Initial revision", or something like that.
  2. It seems you can copy/paste an image into the text field of a page, and the image is visible when you're in the edit view, but not visible when viewing the page. The base64 encoded image data remains in the text, though, not removed on save. Why not use code similar to what's in collective.base64imagepatch to save that base64 image data as an actual image and link to the new Image from the text? That add-on even has code for subscribing to the modify event.
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  1. IIRC this is added by the plone.versioning behavior. It’s more relevant when making edits later (if versioning is set to manual, a new revision is only created if you enter a change note), but I guess you could use it when adding an item to record the source where the information came from, or something like that.
  2. I think the answer is one of the following:
    1. It used to work, but broke in some upgrade of the tinymce addons
    2. or, the usual answer… because no one did it yet.
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