Malisart Aurélien
2009-Jan-30 20:52 UTC
[Facebooker-talk] a constatation on fb:name FBML tag
Hi all, I just constated something strange (for me at least) with <fb:name />. If you use a group gid as the "uid" param, it works too. The group name and link get rendered. On the wiki page (http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/ Fb:name) it is said that it works with user ids and page ids. So does it mean the "id space of facebook" is shared between all types of objects (pages, users, groups, events, ...) and the plateform is able to determine what type it is (deterministically) according to the given id? By the way, if you access the user profile page with a gid as the id you get redirected to the group page, so it seems to be the case. Do you think I can rely on this in my application and so use the fb:name tag to display groups names/links (which would be a great performance ehencement). Maybe all of you did know that and that''s just a dicovery for me.... aur?lien