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What do you mean by adding images? Do you want to login via the browser and manage a media library? Are creating RSS templates [1] considered as "handling the

by atmoz 8y ago

What do you mean by adding images? Do you want to login via the browser and manage a media library? Are creating RSS templates [1] considered as "handling the complexity", or is that too much hassle? [1]: https://github.com/atmoz/atmoz-net/blob/master/.ply/feed.template https://github.com/atmoz/atmoz-net/blob/master/.ply/feed.tem...

cmroanirgo 8y ago
> What do you mean by adding images? For me, lack of nice (ie. controllable, but 'automagic') image handling is a huge bug bear in nearly every cms out there, static or otherwise. Perhaps I didn't find the right platform/plugin... In my case, I wanted to have 1 source image that was resized at various (author controllable) sizes and then saved them, while also generating supporting HTML (eg. 'srcset' to automatically swap between them). I ended up with a couple of ways to template it in [0]: For a thumbnail: <img src="{{image #thumb{w:50} }}"> For srcset: <img src="{{image}}" srcset="{{image #srcset{w:'256,512,800',orig:'1152'} }}" sizes=...> [0] https://github.com/ergo-cms/plugin-thumbnail https://github.com/ergo-cms/plugin-thumbnail. (Note the entire project itself stalled some time ago, and wouldn't recommend it here -- even though I do dogfood it) EDIT: reorder wording
- thirdsun 8y ago
  I think this is a task that is handled by an optional CMS, not the static site generator itself, though I agree it would be handy to have a little helper snippet to do that during build. There are CMS solutions for static sites which will probably handle images, and all kinds of content, easily. Check out Dato[1], Siteleaf[2] or Netlify CMS[3]. Alternatively you can use external tools to prepare your images and simply rely on the standard HTML srcset within your static site generator of choice. I use RetroBatch[4] to prepare my images. [1] https://www.datocms.com/ https://www.datocms.com/ [2] https://www.siteleaf.com https://www.siteleaf.com [3] https://www.netlifycms.org/ https://www.netlifycms.org/ [4] https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/ https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/
- atmoz 8y ago
  I see, so image resizing on build. I like the idea. That should be doable. I may consider implementing something like that in my own SSG some day.
alan_n 8y ago
> What do you mean by adding images? Exactly what cmroanirgo describes, also see my reply to epage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17961353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17961353) for that and my problems with rss, and some other things I didn't mention. For images, I ended up writing my own metalsmith plugin to resize images to different sizes and add all the attributes to the tags properly.

by atmoz 8y ago

cmroanirgo 8y ago

> What do you mean by adding images? For me, lack of nice (ie. controllable, but 'automagic') image handling is a huge bug bear in nearly every cms out there, static or otherwise. Perhaps I didn't find the right platform/plugin... In my case, I wanted to have 1 source image that was resized at various (author controllable) sizes and then saved them, while also generating supporting HTML (eg. 'srcset' to automatically swap between them). I ended up with a couple of ways to template it in [0]: For a thumbnail: <img src="{{image #thumb{w:50} }}"> For srcset: <img src="{{image}}" srcset="{{image #srcset{w:'256,512,800',orig:'1152'} }}" sizes=...> [0] https://github.com/ergo-cms/plugin-thumbnail https://github.com/ergo-cms/plugin-thumbnail. (Note the entire project itself stalled some time ago, and wouldn't recommend it here -- even though I do dogfood it) EDIT: reorder wording

thirdsun 8y ago
I think this is a task that is handled by an optional CMS, not the static site generator itself, though I agree it would be handy to have a little helper snippet to do that during build. There are CMS solutions for static sites which will probably handle images, and all kinds of content, easily. Check out Dato[1], Siteleaf[2] or Netlify CMS[3]. Alternatively you can use external tools to prepare your images and simply rely on the standard HTML srcset within your static site generator of choice. I use RetroBatch[4] to prepare my images. [1] https://www.datocms.com/ https://www.datocms.com/ [2] https://www.siteleaf.com https://www.siteleaf.com [3] https://www.netlifycms.org/ https://www.netlifycms.org/ [4] https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/ https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/
atmoz 8y ago
I see, so image resizing on build. I like the idea. That should be doable. I may consider implementing something like that in my own SSG some day.

alan_n 8y ago

> What do you mean by adding images? Exactly what cmroanirgo describes, also see my reply to epage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17961353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17961353) for that and my problems with rss, and some other things I didn't mention. For images, I ended up writing my own metalsmith plugin to resize images to different sizes and add all the attributes to the tags properly.