Smugmug: Did user JS just change?

[GeekyGirl]

On our page lucasfamily.smugmug.com, I was using a mix of the random image generator (like at the top of the forum pages) and the thumb enlarge (from bigguyweb's site). The thumb enlarge is now broken. As you mouse over they will enlarge and then shrink back to a smaller size than they started. Also the gallery thumbs at the bottom of our page are now enlarging on mouse over. (Those are supposed to stay the default static size.)

When browsing an album, the thumb enlarging works like it should, so I guess it is only broken on the index page.

I don't speak javascript, so I can't figure out how to fix it. I hope someone can help me out. I appologize in advance if using the javascript and idea from bigguyweb's page is "uncool." I tried to credit him both in the CSS and javascript. I'm learning both, and its actually been really helpful to me to look at other people's code.

Thanks!

[Naums]

Hello,

I successfully installed (with help from Andy and Anton) the Syronex Email Encoding function on my site in Oct last year.

Recently, the "email me" hypertext disappeared from my site's "Contact Me" page. The page should read something like: If you have any questions about my photos, please email me. The "email me" part is now missing. I have not changed anything on the site or any of the code.

Could this be caused by the change in SmugMug's JS? How can I fix this?
Thank you for your assistance.

My site is: naumannphoto.smugmug.com

Mark

[scoodog]

Originally Posted by jfriend

Further if you are going to refer to all javascript customizations as "unsupported hacks" that can break at any time without advance notification, warning and time to plan, then I don't know how any serious professional could think about using this kind of customization because it's a ticking time bomb in their site. If the flexibility to use most javascript customizations goes away because you never know when they will break, then so do some of the signficant advantages of customizing Smugmug.

I agree. I lost trust in smugmug with this move. My JavaScript stops working, and I find out from a family member what my photo site is "broken." Thanks very little, smugmug. I am considering removing all customizations and, if that's the case, just jumping ship to flickr.

[Dalantech]

The small random images that show up here in the Dgrin banner still work, and yet my site's banner is broken due to the recent JS changes. How can I get my banner image script to work again?

[Andy]

Originally Posted by scoodog

I agree. I lost trust in smugmug with this move. My JavaScript stops working, and I find out from a family member what my photo site is "broken." Thanks very little, smugmug. I am considering removing all customizations and, if that's the case, just jumping ship to flickr.

I'm looking at your site right now, what is in need of fixing please

[Andy]

Originally Posted by scoodog

I agree. I lost trust in smugmug with this move. My JavaScript stops working, and I find out from a family member what my photo site is "broken." Thanks very little, smugmug. I am considering removing all customizations and, if that's the case, just jumping ship to flickr.

You'd leave, because we are trying to make things faster and better, and the site more secure.... but were not able to contact all people who had JS in their headers? And that we didn't foresee this? I'm very sorry about and have posted here a mea culpa:

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=759212&postcount=18

and Lee has and update here:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=764401#post764401

So, we did announce this, in our Release Notes, but you're posting a week later. You found out from a family member, when? We have tried to stress the importance of keeping up on our release notes, and in the case of another pending change to the way javascript will be handled, it'll be announced here, and in release notes.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Dalantech

The small random images that show up here in the Dgrin banner still work, and yet my site's banner is broken due to the recent JS changes. How can I get my banner image script to work again?

Don't touch your customizing today, we'll get you sorted out.

- Andy

[bigwebguy]

It is obvious that we (I) underestimated a) the variety of hacks that were out there and b) the importance of having many hacks at the top of the page.

I apologize for not doing the proper research before making this change. We do have a test site loaded up with customizations and hacks. Unfortunately it didn't have a hack that required being at the top. It does now.

The purpose of moving scripts to the bottom is to improve page load performance. When a browser hits a script tag in the page it stops doing *everything* else, that includes downloading images and drawing the page. By moving scripts to the bottom we let the browser do all the downloading and drawing first so the page is visually complete by the time the browser starts on the scripts.

We will be moving your existing scripts back to the top, just like it was before this change. We will also be adding a second javascript box for footer javascript so your customization screen will now have two javascript boxes. The first one called 'header javascript' is the current 'javascript' box, just renamed to better show where it will appear on the page. The new 'footer javascript' box will be empty by default and will be loaded at the bottom of the page. If you have stuff in your header javascript box that does not need to execute at the top of the page, it is recommended that you move it to the footer javascript box.

We hope to have this released by the end of the week.

Lee

[Shudderz]

Originally Posted by bigwebguy

We will be moving your existing scripts back to the top, just like it was before this change.

Lee

will this fix the moving filmstrip? I'm afraid my previous post got buried in other posts. I like the filmstrip style, but don't like the thumbs moving. I have had the right code in place, but seems the last few days they have begun moving again.

Thanks!

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Shudderz

will this fix the moving filmstrip? I'm afraid my previous post got buried in other posts. I like the filmstrip style, but don't like the thumbs moving. I have had the right code in place, but seems the last few days they have begun moving again.

Thanks!

Yes indeed.