Morgan
said
:
W-what if you asked nicely... like...
"H-hey Strawpoll's iframe, could you please give me your dimensions
? I don't want to exchange saliva with you
"
Maybe that'll work!
(From a non programmer's perspective
)
I've tried that and I've tried yelling at it too, all without any success
In all seriousness, I have looked quite deeply into it, and once I hit that wall of security I realised I need a completely different approach. These security things are very restricting, even for seemingly trivial and harmless matters. But they are there for good reason.
There are some other solutions but they don't actually solve my main problem. I could use my site to host polls and even have some nice features, poll archives and such. I could easily embed them in the forums and eliminate all the current issues. I could write my own poll api tailored to linkify too.
But none of that helps when a strawpoll link is posted, it's still not embedded. I'd rather handle current content that's posted, rather than create more. Also it's a matter of priorities, it's not like polls make up a huge part of the forums. Generally we see a couple of polls now and then, then nothing for a while.
So my feeling is the time and resources I'd have to invest could be put to better use. I expect after a year or more of hosting polls the amount of polls created would be very low. I also suspect the data from most of the polls would have little to no application elsewhere. I don't mean that in a mean way, I think I've created more useless polls on Blasty's HLF Polls than all the HLF combined.
If I do anything, I think it'll be along the lines of what posted before, using my site to covert urls to embed code. But right now I'm remaining non-committal
W-what if you asked nicely... like...
"H-hey Strawpoll's iframe, could you please give me your dimensions
? I don't want to exchange saliva with you
"
Maybe that'll work!
(From a non programmer's perspective
)
I've tried that and I've tried yelling at it too, all without any success
In all seriousness, I have looked quite deeply into it, and once I hit that wall of security I realised I need a completely different approach. These security things are very restricting, even for seemingly trivial and harmless matters. But they are there for good reason.
There are some other solutions but they don't actually solve my main problem. I could use my site to host polls and even have some nice features, poll archives and such. I could easily embed them in the forums and eliminate all the current issues. I could write my own poll api tailored to linkify too.
But none of that helps when a strawpoll link is posted, it's still not embedded. I'd rather handle current content that's posted, rather than create more. Also it's a matter of priorities, it's not like polls make up a huge part of the forums. Generally we see a couple of polls now and then, then nothing for a while.
So my feeling is the time and resources I'd have to invest could be put to better use. I expect after a year or more of hosting polls the amount of polls created would be very low. I also suspect the data from most of the polls would have little to no application elsewhere. I don't mean that in a mean way, I think I've created more useless polls on Blasty's HLF Polls than all the HLF combined.
If I do anything, I think it'll be along the lines of what posted before, using my site to covert urls to embed code. But right now I'm remaining non-committal
11-Mar-2015 13:23:13
