Hi there,

 

I've been setting up a myspace page because I felt I had to. Then I tried to style it with some nice inline, unsemantic CSS using Mike Davidson's styling technique.

 

However. This has proved simply exhausting because since it was written most of the profile-page elements have changed subtly. Also the difference between browsers has made the code too unwieldy.

 

So.

 

Has anybody tried to completely replace their myspace profile page with a redirect or some other work-around that allows them to style their page properly, then REINTEGRATE the myspace functionality with javascript, etc.?

 

Perhaps this could be done by redirecting http://www.myspace.com/matthewoglesby to my website and using unobtrusive asynchronous javascript to enable myspace users to interact with it as they are used to?

 

I really want to do away with the cruft of myspace's own code, but I don't want to lose all the sort-of-cool networking things it allows you to do.

from what I remember (few years since I did a myspace page) myspace don't allow javascript

They disallow some actionscript too.

 

like getURL()

 

Some html is also disallowed.

had a quick google and found this : http://namb.la/popular/tech.html

 

Might be of some interest to u

Wasn't that the 'samy is my hero' worm that brought myspace down?

 

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2005/12/31/to...oments-of-2005/

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/123066/teen...omote_site.html

 

http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/mur...9401245067.html

 

He got over 1,000,000 friend requests in 20 hours with it ?

 

Actually, i suppose his articles states what's DEFINITELY disallowed

 

There are more additions to the blacklist since then though

from what I remember (few years since I did a myspace page) myspace don't allow javascript

I seem to remember that too, but it's about things like <embed> etc. isn't it?

 

If I were to redirect my page to my website would that be allowed?

 

I could then find the code on myspace that dealt with friend requests/comments etc., and javascript that into MY WEBPAGE to allow myspace functionality.

 

Might that work?

Users would get a massive warning saying "you are now leaving myspace.com, would you like to continue" Which would be a major problem, and their is no where you can put js in the site, it's all stripped out.

 

Oh an i just re-read the last bit.

 

Yeah you can create links for most things, myspace links are pretty easy to decipher.

Users would get a massive warning saying "you are now leaving myspace.com, would you like to continue" Which would be a major problem, and their is no where you can put js in the site, it's all stripped out.

 

Ouch, that's very painful.

 

Thanks for the headsup. I might just strip out my CSS and make do til someone at myspace has the initiative to do something about it!

til someone at myspace has the initiative to do something about it

 

it'll be a long wait, trust me.