Rich Tabor

> Some feedback from @richtabor would be good on that. Otherwise this looks good to me. 👍 Yes, it shouldn't be gray.

Took an early look, looks like the "Cancel" doesnt work at the moment. Previously it changed the popover back to edit view. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/assets/1813435/f39b5f64-eeb2-40d5-9134-d2b1a21c49cb

It does feel better/more intuitive to edit a link now though.

> @richtabor do we still want to pursue this? I'm a bit torn. Depends if a version of https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/53566 and https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/53654 makes it in. Another idea could be that we...

> Would be interesting to explore leaving it open in another PR though! Agreed.

This focus is a bit odd and we need to follow up with tweaks to the top area, likely in line with the design explorations in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/53654 (without the edit...

> I retested this and it seems I was incorrect about what happens after closing the preview modal. I still think this is a little too jarring for users to...

> Whilst I recognise the flows proposed above, the interaction to have the control appear as soon as you enter a link format has been established in the editor for...

I am increasingly mindful of keeping blocks (an associated experiences) simple. Feels a tad complicated to essentially transform the block to a featured image—without a bi-directional behavior. Which then complicates...

> For example, we're currently missing the ability to use a video or audio recording as the featured content for a post--I think adding that would be a good step...