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Perry P.
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Discontinuing rendering of HTML content

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 ru...
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Rich
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8 years ago
Jigs G. wrote:
I just want to share two or three web pages a year from dropbox to clients, that's it.

Dropbox isn't a webhosting service, and was never intended to be one. If you need to serve a webpage then you really should be using a web hosting service. The right tool for the job...

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Jigs G.
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago
But that's the point Rich, if I want to share some HTML that's generated from some app, like MindJet, I don't want to build a website for that, or upload to an existing one. I just want the share-ee to be able to view it. The default should be to download the file if clicked, not just spin forever as the browser tries to load the HTML file. Yes, there is a download click, but a HTML 5 interactive file from MindJet, just spins out.
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    ChrisPy
    New member | Level 2
    6 years ago
    Jigs G. wrote:
    But that's the point Rich, if I want to share some HTML that's generated from some app, like MindJet, I don't want to build a website for that, or upload to an existing one. I just want the share-ee to be able to view it. The default should be to download the file if clicked, not just spin forever as the browser tries to load the HTML file. Yes, there is a download click, but a HTML 5 interactive file from MindJet, just spins out.

    Did you ever find an answer to this? thsi is exactly what I want to do ....

    I would like to convert a mindjet mind map to a html in a private folder .... for personal viewing only ... any suggestions how this can be done with mindjet and drop box (esp where there are links in the pages)?

     

    Interested in using the html pages and information on a mobile device rather than desktop computer ....

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      Rich
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      6 years ago
      ChrisPy wrote:

      any suggestions how this can be done with mindjet and drop box (esp where there are links in the pages)?

      There is no way to serve an HTML page from Dropbox and have it render in a browser (computer or mobile). You can only download the HTML file.

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