A whinge about images in Vox posts

I've had problems all along with inserting images into my vox posts.

I can't reposition most of the images when I'm in the edit mode. It used to be that I couldn't reposition any of them--I had to delete them and re-insert them to tweak their location. Lately, I can drag one image but not all of them. In my previous post, I can drag the duvet image but none of the others. Trying to drag the others just results in the window treating this as dragging to select. Yes, I carefully select the image. Then I click on it and try to drag it. Doesn't work: just selects text. Over and over.

And if you look at that previous post, you'll see that the floating is broken and the images mess up the paragraph spacing. I suppose that latter has to do with where, inside or outside the <p> tags, the image is placed in the code. But if I want the image to be at the beginning of the paragraph without breaking the text floating, I don't know how else to place it than just before the first text character.

As for the former problem, the floating breakage, I don't know. I wish it didn't happen: that's not the effect I'm going for, that the paragraph spacing goes away from the text but is applied on top of the photos. It's as though they are placed inline, and the float happens below them. Or something. I don't entirely understand why the source view looks the way it does, but then, I thought the whole idea of vox was that one doesn't have to.

Maybe you're not supposed to flow your images through the text that way. Maybe I'm supposed to just let them be a detached row off to one side, disengaged from the text that refers to them. Maybe I'm missing being hip, making some sort of post-geocities stylistic error. If so then yeah, it's my problem and I suppose that I deserve that my posts look lousy. But see, I don't see anywhere in the help files that this rule applies. So, silly me, I want it to work the way the interface seems to, almost, be set up to let me.

Of course, maybe it's just me. I use win2k, Firefox 2, 1024 screen res, a handful of pretty vanilla extensions--nothing exotic, nothing very far off what I think a lot of fairly regular folks use. But maybe it doesn't look that way to anyone else. Or at least, to the vox folks. Last time I emailed them to complain, the answer seemed to be no, it's not broken. Okay, maybe not. But it still looks wretched.

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I have also had a difficult experience with how Vox renders posts with inserted media and lists. It tends to not create new paragraphs unless there is a linebreak preceding the image or video. Or something along those lines; I'm not clear on the specifics. At this point, I've kind of thrown my arms up in frustration and attempted to nudge everything into a near facsimile of my desired post.

I've been playing it safe by keeping my text separated from my media. I haven't even attempted to try text that wraps around images. It looks like it always inserts a wrapper div around the image which splits the paragraph in two. Your first image looks like it was placed well. Perhaps attempt to do the same with the others by only placing the images at the immediate beginning and end of paragraphs to avoid splitting?