Provide ability to embed static images

[myano]

Provide the ability for users to embed static images on their site, in addition to the current system. This would allow users to download the static image and serve it on their site from their server but allow the image to link back to gittip.com. This would allow site administrators to limit calls to external sites when their page loads (decrease load time and increase privacy of visitors).

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[chadwhitacre]

@myano Is this a duplicate of #21?

[myano]

I wouldn't say so, unless the dynamic .png could be served from the site that is embedding it itself.

Then again, if what issue #21 proposes would allow a user to download the most recent copy of the .png and place it on their webserver then that would work as a solution for this.

[chadwhitacre]

So you just mean to have a page under gittip.com/about that has suggested static images and Gittip buttons? That kind of thing?

[myano]

Yep! That would be fantastic. I did some digging and the best example I could think of was this:

"Static button" section on, https://flattr.com/thing/button/801778 which made it easy for me to download the .png and link to it on my site.

[abnor]

You wouldn't even need to create a static image to download. You could just provide a copy table of HTML code (or java) for people to use. Just like the tables we already have for current (terrible) buttons, just create a static HTML code button.

[chadwhitacre]

Dropping to ★★☆.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 @adrelanos in #2952:

For a privacy focused website, we don't like to use the existing code for badges, because those load content from external resources (gratipay) and therefore also break SSL.

Can you provide a static picture (.png or so) (icon/badge) that third party websites are allowed to use as a symbol when linking to their gratipay accounts?

[chadwhitacre]

Closing in light of our decision to shut down Gratipay.

Thank you all for a great run, and I'm sorry it didn't work out! 😞 💃