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14 years 8 months ago #13770 by rdbean
Hey Alex,

Have you had a chance to play around with any of the new stuff adding actions and object types etc pages?

Cheers,

Rich
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14 years 8 months ago #13874 by alzander
Rich,
Haven't had too much time to play with the stuff out of f8 yet, but we're always keeping an eye on things. We generally wait a few months after announcement/release before we try to integrate new features. It means we can be a little behind, but it also drastically lowers issues that we run into during development and issues that user's run into when released. It's a pace we've become comfortable with.

With that said, we're definitely excited about some of the richer sharing options, and really looking forward to tighter integration, and better social linking between sites and Facebook in upcoming releases. 4.1 is in the planning stages now, and if timed similar to past releases, should be out in a few months. We never lock down release timelines too early though as everything in the Facebook (and even Joomla) world change too quickly to post our internal schedules :)

Hope all is well with you and your site,
Alex
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14 years 8 months ago #13933 by rdbean
Replied by rdbean on topic New Open Graph stuff from F8
developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/opengraph/tutorial/

Pretty Good Tutorial.

The issues that I see that are going to be a headache is that in order to use the objects is that users will have to set these up themselves in their app and then some how into the JFBC Component.

Automation I would think would prove hard since there's so many variables.
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14 years 8 months ago #13955 by alzander
Yeah, we definitely agree that that's going to be a headache for us. We're definitely thinking about what to do, but again, won't be in the next month or so at all. I can see some easy hooks for programmers to add events as well as possibly some ways to configure "If this page is hit, create a timeline/open graph event". That wouldn't be for normal navigation, but things like "Profile saved", "message sent", and other POST or ajax type events. Still early to determine what's going to work best, but we test a lot of ideas before implementing things.. always need to make sure it's both powerful and easy to setup.

Speaking of which, Facebook has lately been adding a lot more ways for automated configuration, which we're looking into. It's close to where we could actually configure your application for you if you just give us your AppID/Secret, but still some glaring things missing.. which is why we don't do it yet. The new Open Graph stuff isn't configurable there, but if we can, we'll make it so you can setup the events within JFBConnect.

So, lots of good with the new stuff, but will definitely take time for us to roll it out, especially considering Facebook hasn't even fully rolled it out yet :)

Alex
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14 years 8 months ago #13998 by rdbean
Replied by rdbean on topic New Open Graph stuff from F8
Have been messing with some if it already.

Can you tell me if this script is automagically loaded already from jfbc?
(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=1234567890123&xfbml=1";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));

If you want a guinea pig just let me know!

R
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