Yeah, their choices for image viewing are very lame. Your way is a huge improvement, for sure.
I have used Lightroom's ability to create html-based galleries and hosted them in Dropbox and that works great. I did not realize they had gone through this feature removal before. Gives me hope, then. :) On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:27 PM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > It may have been accidental, but when I, (and a number of other users), > complained a year or so ago, when that particular feature was disabled, > Dropbox put it back. > > I talk up Dropbox whenever people need a place to put smallish important > bits of data, as well as a hosting place for their shared images. I've > gotten quite a bit of free space for doing it, more than I'm likely to need > for my purposes. > > I'll probably stop doing that. Here's the difference. > > Dropbox's built in way, > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/cresentmoon.jpg > > My way. > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20cresentmoon.html > > Dropbox's gallery view. (create a directory and get that public link). > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mn3ukpjm7byiq8m/AACB9ziBnvN5nW6Zb_GqSs7Ea?dl=0&preview=cresentmoon.jpg > > There are also ways to do this through their photo directories, but none of > them give me the simple control to have a Title on the page and the > background display text and the simple hover text that I use to display the > equipment I used. > > > It seems that photo sharing is more important to them than they let on. > They just don't want the user to control of how content is displayed. > > > > On 9/1/2016 1:51 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> I doubt they'll reverse their decision. The HTML hosting aspect is not >> their core business, is most likely an accidental feature/side-effect, >> adds a measurable load to their servers, and probably is abused by >> "warez" or porn providers. It's also possible they are planning an >> internal architecture change that is incompatible in some way with the >> HTML hosting so killing it officially now avoids a huge load of >> support calls later on. >> >> It's inconvenient, but there are other free places to stuff random >> html. Maybe Google Sites would work for you? >> https://sites.google.com/ >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:08 PM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Anyone using Dropbox to display their photographs using an HTML page or >>> for >>> that matter gallery software such as jalbum should complain. I don't >>> know >>> if they will reverse the decision, but it's worth a try anyway. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve >>> immortality through not dying. >>> -- Woody Allen >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
