Comments on: Facebook review http://atypicalhomeschool.net/us/facebook-review/ my personal space Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Addison http://atypicalhomeschool.net/us/facebook-review/#comment-29337 Addison Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:32:28 +0000 http://atypicalhomeschool.net/?p=512#comment-29337 I completely agree with you on the existing functionality part. The one original thing it does do well, however, is user created applications. With all the content users get from random people making applications (though most of them are trash) they save a bundle on actually having to work to give their users decent content. I also have a beef with some of the way it's designed and coded. Changing your email is another good example. You have to add a new one, confirm it, go back in, change it to use the new one, and then delete the old one. And yes, they use a truckload of AJAX. Whenever your main page gets focus, whenever you get a notification, and whenever you click on anything that doesn't take you to another page it makes at least one AJAX call. Depending on what you're doing you may want to check out some of the developer stuff (Facebook groups, downloadable tools). There seems to be a lot of information out there on interfacing with Facebook. I completely agree with you on the existing functionality part. The one original thing it does do well, however, is user created applications. With all the content users get from random people making applications (though most of them are trash) they save a bundle on actually having to work to give their users decent content.

I also have a beef with some of the way it’s designed and coded. Changing your email is another good example. You have to add a new one, confirm it, go back in, change it to use the new one, and then delete the old one.

And yes, they use a truckload of AJAX. Whenever your main page gets focus, whenever you get a notification, and whenever you click on anything that doesn’t take you to another page it makes at least one AJAX call.

Depending on what you’re doing you may want to check out some of the developer stuff (Facebook groups, downloadable tools). There seems to be a lot of information out there on interfacing with Facebook.

]]> By: Meg http://atypicalhomeschool.net/us/facebook-review/#comment-29333 Meg Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:53:44 +0000 http://atypicalhomeschool.net/?p=512#comment-29333 My inlaws used dial up over the summer (they are snowbirds) and it was fine. My inlaws used dial up over the summer (they are snowbirds) and it was fine.

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