Favicons, More on Blobstore

[404Wolf]

So, I had a small improvement idea: I think it'd be nice if there was (in an HTTP val's settings) a place to upload a favicon that automatically gets served under /favicon.ico. I think many val town websites do not have favicons because the way to add it would be to add a ref in the html to an externally hosted file, or manually add the route. Many frameworks let you just add it to a static directory, which is much easier (and having a spot in a val's settings would be as easy).

But in general there's a bunch of improvement ideas I have around blobstore:

• Under blobs in settings, I think it'd be nice if each blob had a copy button (to copy a link to it), and there was an upload box to upload files to blobstore.
• The blobstore UI should have checkboxes for bulk operations and a select all button, so you could, say, search for a prefix, and then delete all of them.
• I think the box where you enter your search query should placeholder text that says "Blob prefix" or something of the sort.
• Maybe, to improve findability a bucket button could be added somewhere in the editor to take you to (or make a modal appear) for your blobstore. It would be nice to be able to add images or other basic static resources to a val without ever leaving the editor.
• Adding to the above, as a final added touch, it would be super cool if you could drag or paste an image into the val town editor, and it uploads it to blobstore, and pastes in a url to the image (like pasting an image into the github markdown editor).
• This might be a niche addition, but I'd love multipart blob uploads.
• Finally, I may have mentioned this some point before, but I think Blob Storage should be under My Stuff and not settings.

[stevekrouse]

All excellent feature requests, thank you!

We try to avoid putting anything into a val's setting that could be done in the val in code.

Favicons are typically small files, or svg, so even though Val Town Projects files don't support binary, one could imagine base64 encoding them and plopping them into a project that way. You'd still have to hook it up though, because we don't have any notion of a static directory. It could be fun to build a "favicon bot" that would go around to public Val Town Projects and send them a pull request with a sensible favicon.

I built a bunch of the features that you asked for in my userspace blob admin, which I think is more the right place for these sorts of things in the short-term especially. I have been meaning to migrate that to a Val Town Project, and would love help with that, or with any of those other features you suggest, and pull requests :)