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Re: Dropbox 2048

#21
post #11

keeping them coming, as I just started collecting all of these 2048 things here. http://2048.nerdspace.co/ it would be completed in a day or two, few are already listed.

If you don't know already, /r/2048 exists.

Re: Dropbox 2048

#22
post #20

That's interesting, does anyone know from where in the Dropbox user interface such datastores and their contents can be accessed?

The blog post (https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/82/dropbox-2048-save...) links to it. Here's the direct link to see your datastores: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/datastores.

Re: Dropbox 2048

#23
post #22
post #20

That's interesting, does anyone know from where in the Dropbox user interface such datastores and their contents can be accessed?

The blog post ( https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/82/dropbox-2048-save... ) links to it. Here's the direct link to see your datastores: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/datastores .

Thanks for the information.

Interesting to note that the datastore isn't really deleted when one revokes Dropbox access to the app, even though it's no longer listed on the datastores page - relinking the app to Dropbox resurrects the previous data.

Re: Dropbox 2048

#26
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because when you do it this way, you don't have to host the text file. This doesn't seem like a big deal when we're talking about 2048 saves, but a imagine a book reader or image editor. I actually tried to do something like this for a Comic Book reader, but the Dropbox API didn't allow for file requests to be made through JS: http://rkuykendall.com/articles/web-slinger-comic-reader/

You should actually be able to use the full Dropbox API from JavaScript. See https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-js and https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore/docs/js .

Ah, so it works for the full API but not the chooser? or have they fixed the content servers? This is what Dropbox Support originally told me when I contacted them about the problem:

> Thanks for writing in. It looks like the issue here is that our content servers (dl.dropbox.com) don't currently allow arbitrary cross domain access in JavaScript. (This doesn't apply to accessing the file directly in your browser, or downloading to your server locally, which is generally what one would do with the link returned by Chooser.) […] This is something that would need to be enabled on our side, so I'll be sure to pass this on as feedback.

Re: Dropbox 2048

#27
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should actually be able to use the full Dropbox API from JavaScript. See https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-js and https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore/docs/js .

Ah, so it works for the full API but not the chooser? or have they fixed the content servers? This is what Dropbox Support originally told me when I contacted them about the problem: > Thanks for writing in. It looks like the issue here is that our content servers (dl.dropbox.com) don't currently allow arbitrary cross domain access in JavaScript. (This doesn't apply to accessing the file directly in your browser, or…

I think I'm missing some context, but this probably isn't the right place to figure it out. Ping me on email (smarx@dropbox.com) if you want, though!
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