Customisable banner via HTML & CSS

[PiggyPiglet]

I propose a system where a user could provide a custom template & styling via HTML & CSS, with variables such as {{downloads}}, {{favicon}}, {{name}}, etc. By default, a preset would be automatically selected, but this option is there for those who wish to customise. The data could be stored via a user system, where banners and their meta data are linked to a specific user, and therefore could be changed at a later date without the image url changing. Alternatively, banners could be anonymous with the meta data is stored exclusively with the banner, and not linked to anything else - effectively immutable.

https://github.com/radkovo/WebVector

[jacobsandersen]

Thanks for your suggestion. We have a user system planned, but we haven't quite gotten to that point yet. This system is still fairly alpha. We'll consider the templating suggestion, but I worry that allowing full HTML & CSS would create a number of attack vectors. It'd have to be a heavy subset, or alternatively Markdown or something with styling controlled in some other way.

I agree that the URL changing with every customization option is gross -- this will be changed once we implement our user account system.

[jacobsandersen]

Just took a look at WebVector and it seems worthy of further research. Thanks for this link.