I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.
I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on imageshack.us or similar...
There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, Skitch is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)
There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, my answer here my answer here hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.
I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.
I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on imageshack.us or similar...
There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, Skitch is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)
There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, my answer here hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.
I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.
I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on imageshack.us or similar...
There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, Skitch is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)
There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, my answer here hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.
I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.
I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on imageshack.usimageshack.us or similar...
There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, SkitchSkitch is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)
There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, my answer here hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.
I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.
I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on imageshack.us or similar...
There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, Skitch is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)
There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, my answer here hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.
I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.
I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on imageshack.us or similar...
There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, Skitch is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)
There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, my answer here hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.
I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.
I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on imageshack.us imageshack.us or similar...
There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, Skitch Skitch is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)
There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, my answer here my answer here hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.
I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.
I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on imageshack.us or similar...
There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, Skitch is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)
There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, my answer here hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.
I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.
I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on imageshack.us or similar...
There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, Skitch is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)
There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, my answer here hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.