Hi,

would be a good to see such an implementation out of the box. (CSSCompressor) 

I try to do it soon - maybe with a varags of URLs which are going to be passed 
into the CSS file.

kind regards

Tobias

> Am 02.02.2015 um 08:35 schrieb Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Putting your static resources in the context root and letting Wicket manage
> them is not a problem.
> For example you can use a special/custom MyScope.class as a scope for
> JS/Css ResourceReferences and a custom IResourceFinder that uses
> ServletContext#getResource() when the scope is MyScope.class.
> 
> The problem with images in .css files is that they are processed by browser
> directly. I.e. they are "invisible" to Wicket. The CSS is streamed to the
> browser and the browser resolves the relative url to absolute one and makes
> a new request for the image.
> 
> One way to make it working is to use a custom ICssCompressor that receives
> the raw .css as an input, parses for url(...) and replaces it with the url
> produced by urlFor(new PackageResourceReference(MyScope.class, "
> the.original.image.name")).
> 
> Another way is to use Less/SCSS/SASS as a pre-processor. I have did this
> with Less in the past: Less4j provides
> https://github.com/SomMeri/less4j/blob/master/src/main/java/com/github/sommeri/less4j/LessFunction.java.
> With it you can replace some content in the Less file during compilation.
> This approach works only with runtime compilation!
> 
> 
> Martin Grigorov
> Wicket Training and Consulting
> https://twitter.com/mtgrigorov
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Nick Pratt <nbpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> is it possible to have Wicket manage resources (.css and .js) outside of
>> the classpath, so that we can leverage all the great dev/prod things that
>> Wicket does with resources served from within the classpath?
>> 
>> We typically put our resources at the root of the context:
>> /assets/css
>> /assets/js
>> /assets/images
>> /WEB-INF/....
>> 
>> This way we can reference images from within our style sheets using
>> 'background:url(../images/logo.png);'
>> If Wicket were to serve these resources (I guess we would have to move the
>> assets down a level so they were brought in to the accessible classpath of
>> the Wicket app), can we manage such context sensitive references within CSS
>> files that are being managed by Wicket?
>> 
>> We're using 6.x
>> 
>> N
>> 

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