img_assist

This site, my glorified blog, started out on Drupal 4. It wasn't until Drupal 8 that there was finally a single official way to handle putting media into nodes, with a media reference field and a media embed filter. Between then and now I used first the venerable img_assist and then the image_filter module, both of which fell by the wayside after D7. I replaced them both using php custom filters, but php in the database is now deprecated for security reasons.

When we left our story last time, things were in decent shape. But then I noticed that some of my img_assist tags weren't displaying, and had to meddle with the custom img_assist filter some more. I made some progress, and I feel I might as well share.