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Subject: 8/20 Facebook Developer Blog
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:20:45 -0400
Facebook
Developer Blog
Facebook Platform Roadmap Update
August
19,
2010 at
2:15 PM
We
announced a number of new products and updates to Facebook Platform at f8 in
April, including the Graph API, social plugins, and support for OAuth 2.0. Over
the next few months we will be making upgrades and removing infrequently used
parts of Platform to support these new technologies at every level of the
stack, while trying to minimize the amount of changes required for existing
applications. To keep you posted on the latest efforts to simplify Platform,
we've updated our developer roadmap and will continue to communicate upcoming
changes through it.
Unifying Platform Tools for Applications and Websites
We have
a
vision
for
Facebook Platform that is powerful, standards-based, and easy to use across
Facebook.com, the Web, and mobile devices. As part of this, we are unifying the
Platform technologies used to build on Facebook.com — OAuth 2.0, the Graph API,
and the JavaScript SDK — with the technologies used to integrate Facebook into
external websites.
First,
we are
upgrading the authentication mechanism we use for all callback URLs to be based
on OAuth 2.0. You can read more about the new signature scheme and can test it
out in your own applications by turning on the "OAuth 2.0 for Canvas" migration
in your application settings. This setting will become the default for all new
applications during the next couple months.
We are
also
moving
toward
IFrames
instead
of FBML
for
both
canvas
applications and Page tabs. As a part of this process, we will be standardizing
on a small set of core FBML tags that will work with both applications on
Facebook and external Web pages via our JavaScript SDK, effectively eliminating
the technical difference between developing an application on and off
Facebook.com.
We will
begin
supporting IFrames for Page tabs in the next few months. Developers building
canvas applications should start using IFrames immediately. By the end of this
year, we will no longer allow new FBML applications to be created, so all new
canvas applications and Page tabs will have to be based on IFrames and our
JavaScript SDK. We will, however, continue to support existing implementations
of the older authentication mechanism as well as FBML on Page tabs and
applications.
Finally, due to low usage rates, we will remove application tabs from user
profiles in the next couple months. Application tabs will continue to be
supported on Facebook Pages.
Simplifying Platform
In
focusing on optimizing APIs that are broadly used by developers, we are
deprecating the following features and will no longer support them at the end
of the year:
* Infrequently used REST API methods
* <fb:editor>, <fb:board>, <fb:wall> and <fb:feed> functionality
* Data Store API
See the
roadmap
for
details.
Cleaning House
We've
also
spent
some
time
cleaning up some of our developer tools and documentation. We've simplified the
Developer application by removing obsolete settings and tabs, and we have
finished migrating the Developer Wiki to our new and improved developer site.
We have
a lot
of work
to do,
but we
hope
these
changes
will
get us
significantly closer to our goal of making Platform standards-based and easier
to use. We appreciate your feedback in the Developer Forum as we move ahead.
Namita,
a
product
manager
focused
on
Facebook Platform, is excited for a simpler and unified Facebook Platform.
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