Tycho,

I think this is a good idea - maybe the "Developers" area on DNNDocs is a good place for it!

Happy DNNing!
Michael

I think that's a great idea, but we should consider same action for DNN Platform itself. If we're gonna standarize, let's do it from the base ;-)

Best,
Francisco

I agree that it would be good if this would be somehow standardized and I agree is a bit of a mess right now.
But I'm not sure picking an existing "fixed" icon set is the best option as in that case you will have the same issue in a few years.
I would to make those icons token based so you could eventually change the icon set.

[Icon:Edit]
[Icon:Save] Etc.

But it should be super simple to implement or else developers will keep using their own solution IMO.
 

We already have a built-in icon set and API in DNN.  It's extensible too, so it can be replaced.  I've used it ever since inception in my open source extensions. 

Unfortunately, some extensions were built before this existed, and those that have been built since either have decided to not use this feature or didn't know it existed.  :)

Posted By Will Strohl on 09 Jul 2019 01:57 PM

We already have a built-in icon set and API in DNN.  It's extensible too, so it can be replaced.  I've used it ever since inception in my option source extensions. 

Can that API support SVG graphics or is it just for raster formats? (GIF/PNG/JPG)

 

Posted By Olly Hodgson on 09 Jul 2019 04:47 PM

Posted By Will Strohl on 09 Jul 2019 01:57 PM

We already have a built-in icon set and API in DNN.  It's extensible too, so it can be replaced.  I've used it ever since inception in my option source extensions. 

Can that API support SVG graphics or is it just for raster formats? (GIF/PNG/JPG)

AFAIK only bitmap, also I'm not sure a lot of developers actually know about it.
 

 

So far, there isn't SVG support, but that could be changed in the future.  :)

We could certainly make it support svg. One concern though is that raster images and svgs work a bit different when consumed. For instance svgs have no size, so just swapping the set wont work unless the consumers know it is an svg and sizes them.

One thing that always bugs me is when I see stuff loading a whole big font and css to consume 3 icons. Same could be said for many other frameworks like bootstrap and even jQuery. I have no problem when it is an offered option, but I frown when it is forced.

Yeah, that's why I have a preference for inline SVGs for icons (as opposed to icon/dingbat fonts).

As you say, you need to know / set the sizes in advance, but most icon sets I've used tend to supply a square SVG image, so as long as you supply the width/height in the HTML and/or the CSS you're golden.