Great idea! We'll plan to add some.

We planned for it but then got too ambitious. We now want animatable xkcd-like characters :-)

We'll probably try it for a few weeks before giving up.

Can I use these cartoons in a game?

Absolutely! Do let us know if you need any specific characters.

More thinking needed. Time for pizza, beer and a small gaggle of creatives.

@tobyhinloopn, @TheCraiggers, this was my idea, and I am uncomfortable that it completely hijacks the browser history. But I do like that I can use the back button to undo the change.

What would you prefer?

You can for Word and Excel. Just set Application.Visible = False.

However, I haven't found a way of turning this off for PowerPoint. On the other hand, one of the weird quirks is that the API draws much faster if you keep the window dragged. I've spent a fair bit of time keeping the PowerPoint window dragged while Python drives COM!

Added. Thanks for the suggestion!

Actually, I'd rather leave it to the author of the document, because it seems a tough problem to solve.

At http://markdress.org/goo.gl/zTG1q, for example, the image is linked to an absolute URL: /graphics/markdown/mt_textformat_menu.png. It's going to be a bit cumbersome to traverse through goo.gl and detect that this is actually at http://daringfireball.net/. Might be easier if authors either stuck to pure relative URLs, or full URLs with domains.

But that's just me passing the buck...

A quick workaround would be to add the `<base>` tag: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/base to your generated HTML and have it point it to the target URL.

True. This is something I'm working on. Even with Dropbox, I'd rather use an HTTPS than HTTP.

I've added it now. Thanks.