In-editor Image-slicing and Stylesheet-management

Hi people,

I’ve got 2 feature-requests:

- I often use Image-TV’s for certain sections of a page. I’d like to be able to define the width and height, and should an image have the wrong aspect-ratio the ability to slice the image (a lot of hosted CMS solutions such as Cushy have this option).

- Linking to stylesheets now happens in the HTML in templates, but as a site grows more and more page-specific stylesheets, I think it’d be interesting to convert Stylesheets to Elements, so that on template (or page) level you’d be able to assign stylesheets, then have the engine contract them to a single stylesheet. This would help reduce server-request and therefore site-performance . Also by having the engine add ?Unix-time to the stylesheet for the last modification, it would allow for better caching.

You could also use resources for the stylesheets.

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 07, 2010, 03:55 PM

You could also use resources for the stylesheets.

I understand, but when you need 4 stylesheets for 1 page, you’d still end up with 4 link elements in your head, which is quite unnecessary. Maybe have a look at how CMS Made Simple does this...

Quote from: StevenLangbroek at Jun 07, 2010, 07:46 AM

- I often use Image-TV’s for certain sections of a page. I’d like to be able to define the width and height, and should an image have the wrong aspect-ratio the ability to slice the image (a lot of hosted CMS solutions such as Cushy have this option).

You could try the php thumb package. It will resize the the image to the size you need.
http://modxcms.com/extras/package/341

Quote from: StevenLangbroek at Jun 07, 2010, 07:46 AM

- Linking to stylesheets now happens in the HTML in templates, but as a site grows more and more page-specific stylesheets, I think it’d be interesting to convert Stylesheets to Elements, so that on template (or page) level you’d be able to assign stylesheets, then have the engine contract them to a single stylesheet. This would help reduce server-request and therefore site-performance . Also by having the engine add ?Unix-time to the stylesheet for the last modification, it would allow for better caching.

Here I would use the Minify solution
http://code.google.com/p/minify/