Somehow I find it strange that we can't write a simple image tag anymore in core.

Somehow I find it strange that we can't write a simple image tag anymore in core.

Easily fixable:

• remove remote adapters
• Remove support for the web spec loading=lazy

and it would be like 2010 😀

2010 was not bad, less complicated as now 🤣

2010 was not bad, less complicated as now 🤣

I mean you can remove the complicated JLayout and add the same functionality in the sef.php plugin. BUT there's a performance cost, with the JLayout approach you run the code only for images using the media field but with the sef plugin you will run that code for each and every image in the HTML. And since for me User Experience is more beneficial than Developer's experience/convenience thus this PR. The project could very easily destroy any meaningful SEO/ROI by executing code repeatedly for cases that is not required but then again will keep devs that think it's awkward to cater themselves for the output of their code very happy. Not up to me to decide, I just proposed what seems reasonable by my own standards. Feel free to close this and add the code in the sef.php...

I still would prefere to implement the layout properly in HTMLHelper::image and use this everywhere, it's much more convenient

I still would prefere to implement the layout properly in HTMLHelper::image and use this everywhere, it's much more convenient

Probably I would also agreed with this if the HTMLHelper::image had more friendly/memorable arguments:

	/**
	 * Write a `<img>` element
	 *
	 * @param   string        $file        The relative or absolute URL to use for the src attribute.
	 * @param   string        $alt         The alt text.
	 * @param   array|string  $attribs     Attributes to be added to the `<img>` element
	 * @param   boolean       $relative    Flag if the path to the file is relative to the /media folder (and searches in template).
	 * @param   integer       $returnPath  Defines the return value for the method:
	 *                                     -1: Returns a `<img>` tag without looking for relative files
	 *                                     0: Returns a `<img>` tag while searching for relative files
	 *                                     1: Returns the file path to the image while searching for relative files
	 *
	 * @return  string|null  HTML markup for the image, relative path to the image, or null if path is to be returned but image is not found
	 *
	 * @since   1.5
	 */

But that last integer it's a very good lesson for new devs how NOT to assign arguments on a function 😀

Then again this is just code and someone could maybe fix this in a B/C way (we did that for the script/stylesheet functions somewhere around 3.5). That said I still believe the JLayout is the right API for echoing HTML fragments, it's what the project uses everywhere else (all bootstrap, fields, XTDButtons, etc)

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Images are well rendered, i have tested feeds too!

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 4448757

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 4448757

RTC

Thanks!

Nice, thanks!

Can you also have a look on #37148?

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@RickR2H this was merged on 25th of February (it's not a pending PR)