20
2008
Facebook has provided a nice Animation library that can be used on applications both on and off Facebook. Detailed documentation for the library can be found here. This tutorial will show you how to create a navigation menu that makes use of the Animation library and mouseover events to fade up and down hidden divs.
22
2008
Facebook profile boxes are a great way for an application to improve the user experience and also provide publicity for the application. However, it is not so great when the profile box consists of a bunch of broken links to missing images.
There are currently 29 bugs reported against the Facebook image caching mechanism. Some of these problems have been around for over a year, so there is valid reason to be concerned.
Fortunately there is a method you can use that forces Facebook to re-cache your image when calling setFBML.
17
2008
Facebook has fully launched its new profile, forcing application developers to revisit the coding of a profile box. Fortunately, without making any changes whatsoever, the old style profile boxes will appear successfully on the Boxes tab.
However, for those application developers who want to go one step further, here is a description of how to support the profile box on the user’s Wall tab using the PHP library.