#17141: Placeholder images in contrib/webdesign
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: closed
Component: contrib.webdesign | Version: 1.3
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: placeholder, | Triage Stage:
images, webdesign | Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by aaugustin):
This was already requested in #16658 and rejected on the grounds of
"reliance on external services".
That said, do we really have to use a third party service? It should be
fairly easy to generate PNGs of a given size with PIL. Django already has
an optional dependency on PIL (`ImageField`). If we did this, all you'd
have to do to use the feature is add an URL pointing to
`django.webdesign.views.placeholder` in your URL conf.
I believe that's what the OP had in mind, and not a wrapper around a
third-party API.
I agree that this brings little value — the only real advantage compared
to placehold.it is that you can develop offline. However, it fits
reasonably with Django's philosophy and shouldn't be a maintenance burden.
If a patch with a self-contained and simple implementation was submitted,
wouldn't we reconsider the "wontfix"?
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