Increase Placeholder Limit

[StevenWWinters]

Can this please be increased?

[cursor]

¡Cowabunga! What are you putting in there?!

[StevenWWinters]

Well, it really should not matter. The point is, that the limit is, well, rather too limiting. In this case, I am using a javascript photogallery from here: http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/what/

I am using and older version as the original site that has been up for a while and this code (html and javascript) is working ok, but for XWD I had to cut out one of four galleries to get under the limit.

I could possibly use an iframe, but should not have to. I may yet experiment with that.

Another possibility might be breaking the code into multiple placeholders, but that is clumsy at best and it's not clear to me how the placeholders would stack (order in the html file). Maybe John Horn can (or has) expound(ed) on that. Again, though, this would be clumsy. It would be better to increase the limit.

The best solution is for Xara to make it easier for those with the knowledge and interest, be able to easier enhance their sites. Placeholders, really are a powerful concept, once you get it. I didn't like it at first, but, it works. But the editor and ability to manage external code needs to be better, IMO. Allowing users to extend XWD beyond its visual capability where it already excels, will only increase its marketability...

[covoxer]

How many characters you need?

[StevenWWinters]

In this particular instance, I think the total is under 40k. But I'm not sure why you would want to limit it to less than a couple hundred k. That seems heavy for a web page, but then people are always trying to do things you don't expect them to...

I suppose another option would be some kind of XWD include files, which could be limitless. :-)

[covoxer]

What does your code look like? Is it a single javascript?