If stuggling to come to grips with Active Content and Mobile Friendly descriptions hasn't been enough of an issue to keep us fully occupied, Google and eBay have come up with a new nightmare for those of us who use links to offsite hosted images, stylesheets etc.
If you don't do any of these thing you can stop reading NOW.
For those who do, eBay US have informed sellers that as from October 2017 to correctly see content in descriptions all HTTP URL content will need to use the HTTPS protocol.
This change has been caused by Google Chrome which from October showing a message "Not Secure" in the browser for pages that use HTTP content and not HTTPS. eBay is changing to HTTPS to prevent this happening.
So if you are one of the unlucky ones, you need to
1. Check if your domain is complaint, and supports HTTPS.
2. If not you may need to organise a SSL certificate for your own site.
3. Replace all HTTP with HTTPS (Http:// to Https://)
It appears that this is already happening with listing that have external hosted images. I believe that if your listings are non-compliant and view using CHROME the Description will not show and have a "See full item description" button. Unfortunately Chrome is said to be used 40 -50% of users.
At the present time this is only happening if you are using Google Chrome. The Description will appear normally in Firefox and IE, at least for the moment.
For more info see
http://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/Stronger-Browser-Security-Standards-Ahead/ba-p/27389922
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