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HTML5 image srcset support for Wagtail
Install wagtail-srcset::
pip install wagtail-srcset
Add it to your INSTALLED_APPS
:
.. code-block:: python
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
"wagtail_srcset.apps.WagtailSrcsetConfig",
...
)
Use it in your templates:
.. code-block:: python
{% load wagtail_srcset_tags %}
{% srcset_image img width-600 %}
Or via wagtails "as" syntax:
.. code-block:: python
{% load wagtail_srcset_tags %}
{% srcset_image img width-60 as thumbnail %}
<a href="https://github.com/ephes/wagtail_srcset/blob/main/{{ thumbnail.original }}">
<img id="img-{{ img.pk }}" src="https://github.com/ephes/wagtail_srcset/raw/main/{{ thumbnail.url }}" srcset="{{ thumbnail.srcset }}" />
</a>
The full documentation is at https://wagtail-srcset.readthedocs.io.
I tried to use wagtail as a basis for a personal blog engine (yeah I know). Playing around with some images I noticed that they looked not as sharp as on my old page and I wondered why. Finally I found out that wagtail images with width-600 for example are implicitly upscaled on modern display devices. For a more detailed description and demonstration with an actual image, take a look at the image below and maybe view it at 100% scale.
.. _wagtail: https://https://wagtail.io/ .. image:: https://github.com/ephes/wagtail_srcset/raw/main/example/media/wagtail_srcset.jpg
Here are two amplified sections, to make the difference more visible:
.. image:: https://github.com/ephes/wagtail_srcset/raw/main/example/media/ape_blurry.jpg .. image:: https://github.com/ephes/wagtail_srcset/raw/main/example/media/ape_sharp.jpg
This package aims to provide a new image tag for wagtail that produces sharp looking images by generating a srcset attribute that includes larger images for higher pixel density devices.
If you are concerned about the increased image size I would recommend to use more aggressive lossy compression instead of upscaling.
Does the code actually work?
::
# create a virtualenv and activate it
git clone https://github.com/ephes/wagtail_srcset.git
cd wagtail_srcset
python -m pip install flit
flit install -s
pytest
::
# activate virtualenv where wagtail_srcset is installed
python manage.py runserver --settings example.settings 0.0:8000
::
# activate virtualenv where wagtail_srcset is installed
flake8 wagtail_srcset tests
::
# activate virtualenv where wagtail_srcset is installed
pytest --cov=wagtail_srcset --cov-report=html
::
# activate virtualenv where wagtail_srcset is installed
DJANGO_ALLOW_ASYNC_UNSAFE=true python manage.py shell_plus --notebook
::
# activate virtualenv where wagtail_srcset is installed
rm docs/modules.rst docs/wagtail_srcset.rst
sphinx-apidoc -o docs/ wagtail_srcset
make -C docs clean
make -C docs html
open docs/_build/html/index.html
::
# activate virtualenv where wagtail_srcset is installed
flit publish