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TaylorKrusen
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffFeedback: The Embedder Launched in Preview
New feature alert! Dropbox is previewing a new pre-built component called the File and Folder Embedder. Simply paste a JavaScript snippet into your code and you’ve added the ability to turn Dropbox s...
So, I've encountered what could be a weird edge-case:
1. Open Safari on IOS or OSX and clear all history
2. Open a page that uses embedder on it's own domain
3. You will get a warning "Cookies are required to view this Dropbox content." and a button "Allow cookies"
4. Pressing "Allow cookies" doesn't work.
5. Going to dropbox.com and then repeating step 4 works.
Is this a known bug or is it a behaviour in Safari that is impossible to work around?
Update:
Also, on OSX Safari it seems that I even after being able to allow cookies and signing in have to allow cookies everytime a new embedder is shown. Is this also known?
Same problem with Chrome browser in iOS. The embedded "Allow Cookies" button didn't work. I had to open DropBox.com in same browser first for the embedded "Allow Cookies" to ask me to Allow. Please, let me know when this bug is solved. Thank you.
- Greg-DB
TobiasR pcuadros thefreshlab We've updated the Embedder implementation to better handle these cases and improve the error reporting when needed. Unfortunately, due to some of the new cross-site behaviors in some modern browsers we can't always display the content directly (depending on the user's browsers settings and behaviors), but the Embedder should now work more reliably when dealing with these restrictions, including showing some error messaging and a link to the content when it can't be displayed directly. Please give it a try and let us know if you're still seeing anything not working as expected. Thanks!
The embedder is a great idea, but I wish it was much more flexible...
1. Make it possible to adjust it's colors etc. to make it integrate better into an existing design.
2. Make it possible to specify folders/files that should be excluded
3. The header is wasting too much space. Even in the "small" header, it's a big waste of real estate.
4. Show how many files are in each folder, or at least show if it's empty.
5. Be able to specify the text in the header, instead of showing the name of the root folder. E.g the shared folder may be named "Files shared to web". But that makes no sense when shown as the title in the header on a web page. It would make more sense to be able to set the title to be "Browse the files in Project xxx"
6. An upload feature would be amazing.
- Greg-DB
James_T 1-6. Thanks for all the feedback! I'm sending this along to the team.
7. I see you opened a new thread for this, so I'll follow up with you there.
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