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Install Facebook applications on any web site
Love them or hate them, Facebook applications are what makes the social networking site what it is. Back when MySpace, Friendster, and other sites let you connect with friends, leave messages, and maybe even play some music, Facebook let you send snowballs, play Scrabble, and graph your bestest friends. The only problem with Facebook applications is that up until now, you've had to actually visit Facebook to access them. OK, sure, that makes sense. But as Google promotes its OpenSocial initiative which will let people develop applications that can run on any website, Facebook's approach was starting to look a bit antiquated.
Now Facebook has upped the ante by releasing a JavaScript client library that lets you add a Facebook application to any site. That means you can visit Joe Schmo's home page and still play a game of Scrabulous with your Facebook contacts. You know, if Hasbro and Mattel don't shut it down.
There appears to be some debate in the developer community about how significant this announcement was. Facebook had already released an API for writing applications. And some developers have created applications that can be hosted on other sites. But by releasing the JavaScript library, developers can create multi-site applications that do not require any server-side code, making it incredibly easy for anyone to embed an application on their site.
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Brent said 8:38AM on 1-28-2008
The Javascript Client Library doesn't allow you to add Facebook applications to your own websites, it allows developers to make Facebook applications without having to have a server-side dynamic scripting support.
So developers can still make a Facebook application even if their webhosts don't support PHP or ASP or similar options.
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Brent said 8:38AM on 1-28-2008
The Javascript Client Library has nothing to do with installing Facebook applications on other websites.
It allows developers the ability to *create* Facebook applications without having to use PHP or ASP or other similar client libraries.
If, for example, your host doesn't support server-side-scripting for some reason, you can use the Javascript library to turn a non-dynamic site into an application.
This is, in no way, connected to the concepts of OpenSocial.
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Avery said 12:04PM on 1-28-2008
Hello Brent,where can i learn The Javascript Client Library ,i am quite new.Can you leave me a good site here,i will back to check this.i guess i got to learn to code.Thanks.
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