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Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by Kylekramer »

somethingnew wrote: post #28
daniloassis wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes hehehe. Someone will be fired today. :(

That's not how Facebook does things. Actually if you haven't taken down the site, you'll be warned.

"Move fast and break things" may work for Facebook.com, but I dunno if souring relationships with important partners will be praised.

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by esrauch »

ceejayoz wrote: post #36
mxxx wrote: post #29

A perfect case study in why the current practice of "just add a script tag with 'facebook.com/whatever.js' into your page and all your LIKE buttons will work magically!" is an absolutely terrible idea.

Yep. We prefer the solution over their JavaScript-created versions for this reason.

This particular bug is just as likely either way; the js must be changing window.location, there's no reason to think the iframe wouldn't change window.top.location.

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by benihana »

mxxx wrote: post #29

A perfect case study in why the current practice of "just add a script tag with 'facebook.com/whatever.js' into your page and all your LIKE buttons will work magically!" is an absolutely terrible idea.

'Absolutely terrible' is a just a wee bit hyperbolic. It is an idea that has positives and negatives, but you only notice it when it does this. And how many times has it done this since they've implemented it?

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by nwh »

esrauch wrote: post #43
ceejayoz wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. We prefer the solution over their JavaScript-created versions for this reason.

This particular bug is just as likely either way; the js must be changing window.location, there's no reason to think the iframe wouldn't change window.top.location.

IE and Chrome both have ways of restricting iframes from changing window.top.location, but I wouldn't trust them to work.

    IE:
    

    Chrome:

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by yogo »

benihana wrote: post #45
mxxx wrote: post #29

A perfect case study in why the current practice of "just add a script tag with 'facebook.com/whatever.js' into your page and all your LIKE buttons will work magically!" is an absolutely terrible idea.

'Absolutely terrible' is a just a wee bit hyperbolic. It is an idea that has positives and negatives, but you only notice it when it does this. And how many times has it done this since they've implemented it?

Broken behavior related to this happens quite often actually. I've had sites that were bitten by this or some variant. If you follow the Facebook bug tracker it comes up every now and then (it might be localized to a degree in some cases). They do move fast and I think fix it quickly in most cases. In fact there was something that was broken just last week here on HN but the behavior wasn't something that affected so many sites to this degree.

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by hc5 »

gagan2020 wrote: post #38

This might be because of - February 2013 Breaking Changes Now Live https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/02/06/platfor... And, they are surely breaking.

This is my guess as well - our app updated and Facebook connect works just fine.
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