As Diva herself would say:

Nod in agreement.

It is BETA. And should NOT be used on a live store.

This whole little adventured did start after a conversation between Diva and I where I did express my opinion that just perhaps Image handler was just a bit more complicated than it need be. So, I set out to explore if that belief was true.

Personally, I think that the core functionality is creating scaled version of images and serving them to the browser when required. The first version of this BETA software does that with a single file. It is not beautifully coded, it has its limitations but that did prove to me that perhaps there was merit in proceeding rather than throwing efforts behind IH4 .

There is no doubt in my mind that IH has been a 'go to' module for many years. It is a fantastically effective module and I admire it greatly. I really do hope that a version that is compatible with 1.5 appears. I just got interested in whether there were other ways of doing the same thing. Choice is always good and healthy.