Comments on: Switching to django-compressor in Playdoh http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2012/11/21/switching-to-django-compressor-in-playdoh/ Engineering the web Fri, 17 May 2013 21:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James Socol http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2012/11/21/switching-to-django-compressor-in-playdoh/comment-page-1/#comment-226674 James Socol Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:06:38 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/?p=3092#comment-226674 They broke out staticfiles from media to create a distinction between uploaded content and static content, so

MEDIA_URL/MEDIA_PATH – user uploads
STATIC_URL/STATIC_PATH – static files from your app

]]> By: Schalk Neethling http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2012/11/21/switching-to-django-compressor-in-playdoh/comment-page-1/#comment-226579 Schalk Neethling Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:15:02 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/?p=3092#comment-226579 Hey there Ross,

Regarding the use of static for linking from within CSS, I do exactly the same. Regarding the use of static for file uploads, I am not sure but, will pass the question around and update the post once I have a definitive answer. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Ross Bruniges http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2012/11/21/switching-to-django-compressor-in-playdoh/comment-page-1/#comment-226478 Ross Bruniges Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:36:17 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/?p=3092#comment-226478 I was hoping someone would right something about this after going through rather a bit of pain myself when having to upgrade!

One thing you missed (and caused me rather a lot of head scracting) is that if you reference images/fonts in your CSS files then the usage of ../ URLs will now break. Not sure if this is the best solution but I got around this by referencing everything instead to be /static/ – so url(‘..img/css/check.png’) would be replaced by url(‘/static/base/img/css/check.png’)

Also, am wondering how using staticfiles effects the usage of any image upload fields used in the app? This will still use the old {{ MEDIA_URL }} yeah? Should it be changed to use static or just left as is?

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