Use off-site images?

In small websites you use images you store at flickr, picasa, etc.

In other websites you use open images at wikipedia and similar sites.

Is there a way to use external images for sprites and/or backgrounds in your games?

Sprite "Load image from url" works only on your site or XSS enabled sites.

Browser "Download" writes the image in the downloads folder of browser, where you can't access it.

I don't want to make a Php script to serve external images as faked server images.

Any idea?

What's wrong with the php script option?

If you don't need all the sprite features,

you may wanna try Pode's IMG plugin (from the html pack),

It didn't bother with cross domain last time I tried

(or maybe it was the second link try both :p)

http://www.scirra.com/forum/behavior-inject-base64-string-as-sprite-image_topic50604_page1.html

http://www.scirra.com/forum/plugins-pode-html-pack_topic51522_page1.html

Images are limited across domains for security reasons. Since it's a potential security vulnerability to get an image from a different server, the server must opt-in to sharing the image by setting up CORS (the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header). This is the intentional design of the web.

Ok, I'll turn into php... bye, bye, offline app!

Also if I want to add an image each day (my project is a jigsaw puzzle), must I re-create the manifest?

That could be affordable for a standard html5 app (i.e. a php script would make a new manifest each day), but not for a chrome app.