Javascript support in HTML customisation

TalkieT

Removing Javascript removes a huge set of capability from customisation options.

Your new editor parses and removes Javascript from the HTML blocks.

I request an option to bypass the javascript filtering in the HTML block if a user accepts an "at their own risk" clickthrough. Even happy for future support to be contingent on temporarily removing the Javascript elements from the customisation.

Regards
Neil Gardner

AdamNP

TalkieT wrote: »

Removing Javascript removes a huge set of capability from customisation options.

Your new editor parses and removes Javascript from the HTML blocks.

I request an option to bypass the javascript filtering in the HTML block if a user accepts an "at their own risk" clickthrough. Even happy for future support to be contingent on temporarily removing the Javascript elements from the customisation.

Regards
Neil Gardner

This is exactly what I said about Javascript a few days ago. Put a big warning in red text above the JS box "we don't support this, if you break your site it's not our problem, we won't help unless you remove it"... and let us use it. Honestly, most of these new feature requests wouldn't even exist if you simply restore the use of JS.

thenickdude

The problem is that even if people agree to a warning like that... they will still be asking support for help when things go wrong. And despite the warning, if SmugMug updates their site every couple of days and the custom JS that you're using breaks as a result, you would get tired of that pretty quick and would not stay a customer of SmugMug for very long. SmugMug are looking to be able to change their site code and JavaScript more rapidly without having to worry about breaking everybody's site.

That being said, SmugMug could develop a fancier JavaScript customisation system that would sidestep some of those compatibility problems. For example, they could add support for developer-provided custom JS widgets, which developers can maintain and would automatically update on every site that has embedded one of those widgets.

dennismullen

+1

juanheredia

+10

mishenka

Your "100% Customizable Engage your inner control freak and sculpt every detail of your design" advertisement on the front page is a lie or a false advertisement (legally speaking). I want to change a caption on a button, let's say I want to rename button named "Post" (in comments) to "Submit". I could have done it with javascript. Now I cannot do it. The offered templates are not "100% Customizable". No one can ever force you to allow javascript in your product. But there are (legal )ways to force you to remove "100% Customizable" from the front page advertisement.

DesptachesGallery

mishenka wrote: »

Your "100% Customizable Engage your inner control freak and sculpt every detail of your design" advertisement on the front page is a lie or a false advertisement (legally speaking). I want to change a caption on a button, let's say I want to rename button named "Post" (in comments) to "Submit". I could have done it with javascript. Now I cannot do it. The offered templates are not "100% Customizable". No one can ever force you to allow javascript in your product. But there are (legal )ways to force you to remove "100% Customizable" from the front page advertisement.

The legal issues which you mention I also raised a few days back. They seem to focus, from a legal perspective, on keeping (allegedly) the patent rolls at bay rather than honouring their own legal obligations for the products and services they sell to their Clients, which has a much larger impact on SM as they are charging a fee-for-service.