Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-04 Thread Brian Walters
A minor irritation I have is that I've had no advice from Dropbox about the change. I only found out through PJ's post to this list. Cheers Brian On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, at 01:50 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Brian Walters wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 09:21 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> Octob

Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-04 Thread P.J. Alling
On 9/4/2016 11:50 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: Brian Walters wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 09:21 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: October 3 is what Dropbox tells me for my account. They may be phasing the change in. Thanks, Bruce. It looks as if I'd better start moving those galleries. Fortunately I hav

Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-04 Thread Mark Roberts
Brian Walters wrote: >On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 09:21 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> October 3 is what Dropbox tells me for my account. They may be phasing >> the change in. > > >Thanks, Bruce. It looks as if I'd better start moving those galleries. >Fortunately I have some personal web space that shou

Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-02 Thread Brian Walters
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 09:21 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > October 3 is what Dropbox tells me for my account. They may be phasing > the change in. Thanks, Bruce. It looks as if I'd better start moving those galleries. Fortunately I have some personal web space that should be able to cope. It's a p

Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-01 Thread Bruce Walker
October 3 is what Dropbox tells me for my account. They may be phasing the change in. On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > That is a bugger. I've got several galleries, including my PESO gallery > stored on Dropbox. > > When is this support being dropped? I notice it's still w

Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-01 Thread Brian Walters
That is a bugger. I've got several galleries, including my PESO gallery stored on Dropbox. When is this support being dropped? I notice it's still working at the moment. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight

Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-01 Thread P.J. Alling
Well, apparently when I wasn't paying attention they started a superuser program to help them with support. The superuser's, who probably reflect management's, attitude runs from you're getting a free service so shut the f*&k up, to we don't need you people anymore, so go away. On 9/1/2016 2:

Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-01 Thread Bruce Walker
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.

Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-01 Thread P.J. Alling
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 share

Re: Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-01 Thread Bruce Walker
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

Dropbox drops ability to render HTML through public links.

2016-09-01 Thread P.J. Alling
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 immo