Drag & drop image uploading with Drupal 6

There are several solutions available in Drupal 6 to upload, manipulate and manage images;

• Image and Image Assist - Add inline images and provides integration with WYSIWYG API.
• CCK and ImageField - Works using CCK and integrates with ImageCache, IF Crop and IF Gallery.
• Upload Image - Uses the standard attachment uploads and turns images into nodes.
  
• Image Upload - Integrates with Views2 and Lightbox2.
• ImgUpload - Allows client-side scaling and rotating of images with a Java applet.
• Node Images - Mainly focuses on providing a gallery page in 'Polaroid' style.
• Image Picker - Similar to Wordpress, focuses on being as intuitive as possible.

Unfortunately, they're all relatively cumbersome. The ideal solution would be to allow drag & drop uploading, similar to how the XStandard WYSIWYG editor has implemented this feature. Unfortunately though, XStandard is not freeware and does not have the same capabilities as the other options;

• Automatically resizing images to the pre-determined formats.
• Providing input filter tags which allow relative paths.

There are also some disadvantages inherent to XStandard and drag & drop uploading;

• Software installation required on client side.
• XStandard only supports Windows & Mac OS at this time.

At this time there doesn't seam to be an 'ideal' solution so you'll have to choose which downsides you can live with and select the appropriate module. Perhaps - if there's enough interest - we'll build a module to allow drag & drop uploading in the future.