[Owncloud] App developers: We will deprecate use of %webroot% in CSS for ownCloud 7

[Bernhard Posselt]

Don't get the performance issue. Isn't this cached already?

Am 05.02.2014 18:49 schrieb Jan-Christoph Borchardt <hey at jancborchardt.net>:
>
> Heya app developers! :) 
>
> Currently apps can include icons from core in their CSS using %webroot%. 
> We need to remove this because of performance reasons and will disable 
> support for it in ownCloud 7. The alternative for this is already in 
> master in the form of a new CSS file: icons.css 
> https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/core/css/icons.css 
>
> All the icons from core can be included in your apps now without any 
> additional CSS. To do that, you would use the classes .icon and .icon-action 
> For example if you have a »Favorites« entry in the navigation of your 
> app, you would add the star icon by simply doing this: 
> <li class="icon icon-star">Favorites</li> 
>
> So now please remove everything containing %webroot% from your CSS and 
> switch to using the core classes in your HTML. 
> If you duplicated any icons from core into your app, please best also 
> change to using the icons from core. 
>
>
> Additionally, we will get rid of %appswebroot% as well. This was not 
> only bad for performance but also mostly useless: Apps generally used it 
> to reference themselves anyway. 
> If you for example have an app called »myfavoritesandwich« and in your 
> CSS you use »%appswebroot%/myfavoritesandwich/img/« you can just replace 
> that by »../img/«. No need to traverse all the way out of your app. 
> And if you use %appswebroot% to include something from a different app – 
> stop that! Apps should be self-contained. ;) 
>
>
> Any questions? 
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