New to Openlayers. Great project, many thanks to all who put so much work into 
creating and documenting it!

What would be the idiomatic way to have the markers on my map with part of 
their appearance being dynamically generated and changeable?

This is to display relative temporal information on the markers: as the user 
changes their location in time instead of space, using controls outside of the 
map itself, I need my markers to change their appearance in a 
dynamically-generated (ie local javascript) fashion.

It would be possible to have a fixed set of graphics that they switch between, 
but there would be a largish number of these, so it would be preferable to just 
generate them locally via Javascript. Best of all possible worlds would 
probably be to fetch a "base" marker and then copy it, add the custom graphic 
as a layer on top of it, drop it on the map, then be able to get at it and just 
change its custom layer with javascript drawing commands (I'm okay with having 
to use HTML5 for this, but I'd prefer not to).

The graphic I want to draw on top of the marker isn't complicated — two or 
three lines at right angles, so I should be able to dynamically update even a 
fair number of markers assuming there isn't a massive drawing overhead.
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