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Good point, they update their icons every couple of days. Even better would be if you could load icons from arbitrary URLs.

I've been experimenting with a different approach of generating the spell cards. The code is available in the web-components branch, and there's a (possibly slightly outdated) online preview.

In this new approach, the icons are not placed via a CSS class and a PNG background image, but instead via a src property of a custom tag. This loads a SVG icon directly from a URL and dynamically inserts it into the HTML. Currently, all icon paths are prefixed with ./icons/ in the generator, so you won't be able to load external icons, but you could try opening this test page and experiment with the icon URL.

Ultimatively, I want to use this new approach of loading icons, but am not sure how to make existing data files backward compatible yet enable external icon URLs at the same time.

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The preview definitely allows more icons than the currently live version. I
also like the formatting in the Contents section a lot more, so that's
excellent. This definitely serves my purposes, so thank you very much for
that!

I don't have any suggestions for the backwards compatibility, besides the
obvious: allow the importing of data from either format and call that
sufficient.

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Robert Autenrieth [email protected]
wrote:

Good point, they update their icons every couple of days. Even better
would be if you could load icons from arbitrary URLs.

I've been experimenting with a different approach of generating the spell
cards. The code is available in the web-components branch, and there's a
(possibly slightly outdated) online preview
http://crobi.github.io/rpg-cards/generator-next/generate.html.

In this new approach, the icons are not placed via a CSS class and a PNG
background image, but instead via a src property of a custom tag. This
loads a SVG icon directly from a URL and dynamically inserts it into the
HTML. Currently, all icon paths are prefixed with ./icons/ in the
generator, so you won't be able to load external icons, but you could try
opening this test page
http://crobi.github.io/rpg-cards/generator-next/components-test.html
and experiment with the icon URL.

Ultimatively, I want to use this new approach of loading icons, but am not
sure how to make existing data files backward compatible yet enable
external icon URLs at the same time.

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