Markdown image links don't work

MicroPad / MicroPad-Core

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Markdown image links don't work #308

Closed BobBorges closed 3 years ago

BobBorges commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug Image links don't seem to work in Markdown elements.

To Reproduce

Create Notebook and note.
insert text element with markdown.
add img links e.g.
- ![img](path/to/local.png)

Expected behavior I would expect images to get embedded in the text card and appear in the print/pdf when generated.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Browser firefox 87.0
Version 3.27.0

NickGeek commented 3 years ago

Hi, I've looked into this and I don't think there's anything that could be done because of how modern web browsers do security. Both Firefox and Chrome block requests to file:// resources from a http(s):// resource (like MicroPad).

If anyone knows of a workaround I'd be keen to hear it, but for now it seems like browsers have decided that it's not possible to do so for privacy reasons.