Embedding cover art inside recipes

khromov · 03-14-2012, 08:21 PM

An idea that I'd like input on.

In CSS you can embed a base64 encoded image, like this:
background-image: url(data:image/jpg;base64,[image]);

I was thinking of using a similar method for embedding recipe covers in Calibre.

This will add to size of recipe, but guarantee the cover will always work and not have to be re-fetched every time.

One could argue that if you're getting news from a publication, you can just swipe a logo from there too. I think it works in most cases, but sometimes images get removed, static image subdomain stops working, etc.

What do you guys think?

kovidgoyal · 03-14-2012, 10:19 PM

I'd rather you did not do this. recipes are automatically fetched from my server by calibre, and this would significantly increase my hosting costs. Put the image on some file hosting service like picasa or flikr or whatever and add a link to it as cover_url in your recipe.

03-14-2012, 08:21 PM	#1
khromov Connoisseur Posts: 83 Karma: 499304 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Kindle	Embedding cover art inside recipes An idea that I'd like input on. In CSS you can embed a base64 encoded image, like this: background-image: url(data:image/jpg;base64,[image]); I was thinking of using a similar method for embedding recipe covers in Calibre. This will add to size of recipe, but guarantee the cover will always work and not have to be re-fetched every time. One could argue that if you're getting news from a publication, you can just swipe a logo from there too. I think it works in most cases, but sometimes images get removed, static image subdomain stops working, etc. What do you guys think?

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03-14-2012, 10:19 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,207 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I'd rather you did not do this. recipes are automatically fetched from my server by calibre, and this would significantly increase my hosting costs. Put the image on some file hosting service like picasa or flikr or whatever and add a link to it as cover_url in your recipe.

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