The basics of something I’ve been thinking about for a long while now have finally been added. Today I got it working so that from the page where you edit your profile you can change your “User icon” (the image that represents your activity throughout the site) either by uploading an image or exporting an area from the canvas. Yay!. This functionality demonstrates a simple kind of export, hopefully I’ll be adding many more export types from now on. I thought of ideas for two export types while doing this work.

One was the idea of a “LiveImage” where you export a section of the canvas and a special page/script is created that updates the exported image and an rss feed whenever the area the image represents is changed. So a remote site could have an image that changes when it is changed on inkoid embedded in it. I think I’ll demo this with the Logo for the inkoid site giving users the chance to edit and change it.

The other idea was for mobile wallpaper exporting but rather than have the user choose a phone size allow the marquee to be resized in steps corresponding to standard phone screen sizes. And maybe save the last used size to the users profile.

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