After trialling the standard js we decided to forgo the dynamic buttons for speed, security and the privacy of our users and use locally hosted images of the buttons or logos with a simple link to the social site. For the readers it's very similar experience, but a much faster solution.
Why to use Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus share links and not buttons
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#52Re: Why to use Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus share links and not buttons
#53This is an understatement. There's no reason for them not to do it - it's fodder for them.
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#54A small typo in the title: Javascript and not java script.
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#55Re: Why to use Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus share links and not buttons
#56A small typo in the title: Javascript and not java script.
Which title? Anyhow, it's "JavaScript" with a capital 'S'.
It was then edited (by a moderator I assume) to reflect the actual title of the post.
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#57This seems like a great time to plug RequestPolicy: "ReuestPolicy is a Firefox extension that improves the privacy and security of your browsing by giving you control over when cross-site requests are allowed by webpages you visit."[1] It is even better if you pair it with NoScript.[2] Whenever I toy with the idea of switching to Chrome I am always end up sticking with iceweasel because of the lack of equivalent RP+N…
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#58I don't have an opinion on the core of the article, but this bit at the end is not the best advice from a user experience standpoint. "And I am seriously thinking into serve my own copy of Twitter Bootstrap scripts instead of serving them from the Google Network." The point of using a CDN for common js/css is to serve it as close to your users as possible as well as increase the change that they already have it in th…
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#59At https://starthq.com we've opted for a half way solution by confining the share buttons to individual iframes. This way we don't prevent the tracking, but do contain their ability to break our page or grab users' data.
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#60My feeling is that if social interaction is core enough that it needs to appear on every single page of your site (or at least on core, highly trafficked pages) then the common way of doing this sucks on two levels;
1) Depending on other websites to load content? Madness.
2) Depending on JavaScript to execute core functionality? Pointless.
I have solidified my thoughts better here: http://tosbourn.com/2013/01/development/replacing-social-med...
I have also written up how you can get the functionality without the JS in this github repo https://github.com/tosbourn/nojs-socialshare