Hello everyone,
I had this idea for an django application that creates image sprites
automatically for you. I want an application that allows me to create and
manage sprites by only using the admin interface. This is how it should
work:
- Add 'django-imaginator' to your INSTALLED_APPS
- Run syncdb, the app creates two new models - Sprites and Images
- Open the Admin interface and add a new Sprite, it has a mandatory slug
field in it.
- Create new Images, they have a ImageField, an slug and a
ForeignKey pointing to which Sprite they belong.
Now you run a custom manage.py command that uses PIL to compile all images
into sprites. It also generate any required CSS.
Now, in your templates you will display the images by using a custom
template tag, something like this
{% sprite 'sprite_slug' 'image_slug' %}
which will be rendered as an HTML <img> tag.
That's basically how it should work, but I wanted your opinion before I
start to write any code. Do you think that this app is a good idea or
it's doomed to failure? Are there other apps that already do this? I also a
bit worried on version control, since the image will be stored in the
database I don't I will be able to keep a version control of the sprites and
rollback changes if required.
Any opinions?
Thanks,
Cesar Canassa
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