Griffiths,

Glad to hear that the photo plugin will be an improved version of the former core feature. Having not seen its new features I can't really comment further but look forward to testing. I assume its not flash based?

Can alt-text be added/viewed by google via the plugin feature?

Hoping it has a good back end system for organizing images, drag/drop ordering for proper display control, Featured galleries, ability to size per spec, etc.