Discontinuing rendering of HTML content

[Perry P.]

Got email notice from dropbox that they are discontinuing HTML rendering.  This is going to cause major issues for my wife since she uses this to distribute info and files to her students.  We are running a basic account and would be willing to upgrade to a paid account to retain this feature, but this policy seems to be across all account levels.

Any advice on alternatives?

[Richard P.]

The sub pages loaded into your frames (which you really really should not use by the way) are not being served with a valid content type, so the browser is interpreting them as text files.

index.html: 

list.htm:

Try renaming your .htm files to .html (remembering to update the index.html frames definition).

[Jim I.3]

So far, updog is working for me, simply copying files and folders from my dropbox Public folder into my updog folder.  My web pages are all very simple, just text and images and links.

[Anoop G.]

^ same here.

[Dave C.21]

That got it, thanks! I have some changes to make, but it looks a lot better now.

You'll note that I made this website about fouteen years ago...just keeping it for nostalgia reasons now, band isn't even current anymore

Thanks again!

[Anoop G.]

Dave, Glad you were able to get it to work!

[David R.16]

What's updog?

[Dave C.21]

Not much dog, what's up wit chu? 😉

[Bob J.]

I think Pro has a bit longer before html rendering stops, but i am unclear what this stoppage will mean for html-like files?.

I store .kml and .kmz files on DropBox for Google Earth rendering and these call in .jpg images via html statements in the inline html in balloons. i.e.:

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/xxx/Images/D38.jpg" />

Will these be affected?

BobJ

[Rik H.1]

Also very dissapointed to see this change. And yes, I already have a real web hosting account. This was a very convenient feature for quick temporary pages that require https. I still love Dropbox, but this will greatly reduce my need for it.

[Adam L.5]

In the same boat and I'd totally pay to keep the html hosting. In an exhausting(ive) search for a replacement, I think I'm going with Github Pages as it's free and supports static html & css. Worth a look if you're balking at Weebly/GoogleSites/etc

https://pages.github.com/