Do we really need media widgets when we have Text widget?

[alexvorn2]

I don't see a point in media widgets when we have Text Widget, I am interested in your opinions... I will attach some screenshots so you can take a look that the difference between text widget and media widgets is like not at all.

[alexvorn2]

Audio Widget vs Text Widget

[alexvorn2]

Gallery Widget vs Text Widget

[alexvorn2]

Image Widget vs Text widget

[alexvorn2]

Video Widget vs Text Widget, a little difference

[johnbillion]

The intention is to make it easier for users to add and edit widgets that contain videos, images, and audio. The output may look the same, but the process of managing such widgets is more streamlined.

Is there a particular problem that you see with introducing dedicated media widgets?

[SergeyBiryukov]

See #32417, #39993, #39994, #39995 for the background and discussions on media widgets.

[alexvorn2]

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

See #32417, #39993, #39994, #39995 for the background and discussions on media widgets.

The majority of tickets were created before adding multimedia files (images, videos, audio) to Text Widget.
Now things changed a little bit, and I think Text Widget could be used instead of Media Widgets.

[johnbillion]

Is there a particular problem that you see with introducing dedicated media widgets?

[alexvorn2]

Replying to johnbillion:

Is there a particular problem that you see with introducing dedicated media widgets?

The Media Widgets creates duplicate functionality of the Text Widget. They use too much space for simple tasks like displaying an image or an audio file, that ca easily added into the editor, if the widgets were a part of a page builder tool then I would be OK of this. There is no error or bug I can make a problem of , I don't understand what you want to hear from me repeating your question.

[westonruter]

Yes, the same effect can be achieved in two different ways. See ​dev note:

Having separate media-specific widgets helps with discovery and allows us to provide streamlined interfaces for each media type. For example, the Image widget now has a field specifically for supplying the link URL (see #41274), and the Video widget now provides more guidance to users when supplying external URLs (#42039). The media-specific widgets are closely aligned with blocks in Gutenberg; the existence of media inside the Text widget will align with eventual nested blocks in Gutenberg, and would be treated as Classic Text blocks in any future migration from widgets to blocks.