It’s still a lot harder than it should be to add pictures to web pages. I know, you think it’s easy, but let’s do a comparison:

1. click on the drawing palette


2. draw

1. fire up a separate drawing application


2. create the image


3. upload it


4. add an tag to link to it

Not too bad so far, but what happens when someone wants to update the image?

1. click on the picture


2. draw

1. download the image


2. fire up a separate drawing application


3. update the image


4. upload it again

The former feels more wiki-like, and I suspect that if sketching in web pages was as easy as sketching in Word or OpenOffice, a lot more developers would draw pictures of what’s going on in their applications.

I can see two ways forward: create drawing tools that rely on the element that are as easy to incorporate into web pages as the Javascript WYSIWYG HTML editor I’m using right now in WordPress, or hack around the problem. Right now, it looks like the latter is winning.  For example, check out