Comments on: Getting Started with Facebook JS (FBJS)

By: Ardi

Ardi — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:42:00 +0000

me too… got stressed with FBJS until now, I thot I’m the only one who having this problem, until I came across this blog post.
Well done post btw

By: Selecto16

Selecto16 — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:41:00 +0000

if(document.getElementById(‘name’).getValue() == “”){
new Dialog().setStyle(‘color’, ‘red’).showMessage(
‘Message !’,
‘Please enter your name’);
return false;
}

By: Mehar

Mehar — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:57:00 +0000

i want to gave *mandatory fields in my foam. Please tell me what can i do.

By: igor g.

igor g. — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:40:00 +0000

I agree, their documentation is one of the worst I have seen in my programming career. I am so spoiled by wonderful api’s and documentation such as Django, Nodejs, jQuery, etc. I am still adjusting to Facebook’s haphazard style of programming.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:17:00 +0000

Thankx for sharing

By: James Gough

James Gough — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:18:00 +0000

Just a little note about something I’ve noticed about FBJS:
You can’t add a click event listener to a link when a tab application loads. While you can write your code to do so, the listener won’t be added until after the first time the user clicks that html element. Very annoying. As it prevents you from calling the methods required to publish to someones stream unless they click a link twice. Bring on iframed tab apps!
You also can’t auto run any function at all on tab apps. Nothing. Nada. Instantly crippling one of the best opportunities for people to develop engaging and interactive brand pages in one go.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:19:00 +0000

Hi Sarah!

Unfortunately, Facebook is really strict for what it will and won’t allow with JavaScript. That code you sent, while simplistic, would not work in facebook at all. It looks like a fairly straightforward form that it generates though.. maybe you can just take the html markup that it’s creating and use that?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:20:00 +0000

Hello:

I apoloize if this is the wrong place to post this.

I do not know javascript, let alone FBJS. I do have a simple question. I want to add a newsletter signup form to a FBML page. Here is the line of code the the email marketing system gave me after I created the form. I have this on my website and now wnat to include it on a FB page. Here is the code: I am hoping that I only need to put somesort of statement before and after it without changing the line of code itself. It is setup that when I make a change on the email server, the changes are reflected in the output, so I never have to change the code on my website.

My name is Sarah and my email is info@mouseclickdesigns.com. Thanks

By: Saviorfromthenorth

Saviorfromthenorth — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:17:00 +0000

Yeah I’ve been doing some facebook apps too and I must say their FBJS is the most excruciating part, up until now I still can’t mange to make those pop up comments. Plus their documentation is not that user friendly

By: Clay McIlrath

Clay McIlrath — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:33:18 +0000

@bdchatsites, i would start with Facebook widgets: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins