So, if you’re hosting a simple Web site via Dropbox, you have a few weeks to find an alternative host and update any links to your site. Thanks to reader Vic Case for alerting us to this development although Dropbox informed some users, neither I nor Joe Kissell, author of “ Take Control of Dropbox, Second Edition” received any such notification. The files themselves remain safe in Dropbox, but Dropbox will presumably give those who click the links the options of downloading the file or adding it to their own Dropbox folder, just as happens with non-Web file types now.

Unfortunately, as of 3 October 2016, Dropbox says it will no longer allow HTML files loaded in a Web browser to be rendered. Dropbox hasn’t been enthused about this feature for years, but the company let it continue (see “ Dropbox Public Folder Leaves and Returns,” 14 July 2012). This worked because Dropbox allowed HTML files to be rendered by the browser instead of forcing them to be treated as downloads. Control-click the index.html file for your site in the Finder, choose Copy Public Link to get the URL to the page, and you had a fully functional site to share.

#1629: iOS 16.0.2, customizing the iOS 16 Lock Screen, iPhone wallet cases, meditate for free with Oakįor many years, if you needed to throw up a quick Web site, one of the easiest ways to do it was to put HTML-formatted text files and linked graphics in your Dropbox folder’s Public folder.

#1630: Apple Books changes in iOS 16, simplified USB branding, recovering a lost Google Workspace account.

#1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power Mode.#1632: Apple Card Savings accounts, SOS in the iPhone status bar, Tab Wrangler, Focus in iOS 16.#1633: macOS 13 Ventura and other OS updates, 10th-gen iPad, M2 iPad Pro, 3rd-gen Apple TV 4K, Apple services price hikes.

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