New Blogger post editor - birthday gift?

Blogger has launched a new post editor (as a 10^th birthday gift?) which they say is an improvement over the old pre-birthday post editor. You can switch to the new post editor by signing into Dashboard and go to SETTINGS > BASIC. At the bottom in Global Settings (this means your choice is not limited to a single blog but to all the blogs in your Blogger account), you will find the choice to select either the ( ) old editor or the ( ) Updated editor. You can read about the updated editor at An overview of the new post editor.

Blogger claims improved image handling with the new post editor. Now when you upload a photo, it will be placed at the insertion point (cursor) rather than always at the very top of the post editor and dragging it (in the COMPOSE mode will not kill the link to the enlarged photo as with the old editor. However, this "improvement" comes with a price. The photo upload icon is missing from the toolbar in the updated post editor in Edit HTML mode. Looks like Blogger have dropped the video upload icon for that is missing in both Edit HTML mode as well as the Compose mode

Compare the toolbars of the old and new editors below:

Toolbar in EDIT HTML mode with old post editor

Toolbar in EDIT HTML mode with new post editor

Toolbar in COMPOSE mode with old post editor

Toolbar in COMPOSE mode with new post editor

I have tested the photo upload with the new editor and I don't like it. Fortunately one can easily toggle between the old post editor and the updated post editor. Go to Dashboard, SETTINGS > BASIC and at the bottom, you will find the Global Settings (meaning whatever changes you do here will apply to all the blogs in the same Blogger account). There you can select the old editor again. May try the new post editor again sometime in the future. I understand Blogger may do some tweaking after negative feedbacks. See screen shot below: