May 2010 Archives
Facebook IFrame applications and the new Open Graph API
Facebook has long recommended that platform applications are developed using IFrames instead of FBML. Unfortunately, that has typically been a painful endeavor. Facebook typically has passed session information to the user as parameters on the first request to the iframe. The developer was required to store that information in a cookie if they wanted to persist it. Unfortunately, webkit based browsers (notably Safari and Chrome) don't allow cross domain cookies by default. This has caused some painful workarounds. Inside, I'll show you a painless one.
Continue Reading…Posted by Mike Mangino on May 12, 2010