Hi, In the context of a multiplayer online poker game ( http://pokersource.info/ ) I'm trying to figure out the proper way to display the gender of a player in the JavaScript client that will display as a gadget ( http://jspoker.pokersource.info/ ). The poker server knows nothing of the gender of a user, it is only concerned with its chips and the action at the table ;-)
At first I thought the JavaScript client could use the JavaScript opensocial / gadget API to query the gender of a player sit at the poker table. Assuming this information is made public by the opensocial container, it seemed logical. However, there does not seem to be a function to do that. And when Johan (another developer of the pokersource software) pointed me to this post http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api/browse_thread/thread/e61103dee8f23d40/a8001b7b1cbf7c2c?lnk=raot I realized that I was probably thinking backward. Since each poker player will install the poker application and therefore grant access to some of its data to the poker server, maybe the proper way would be for the poker server to collect the user gender. The JavaScript poker client would then run a makeRequest call to the server, asking for user information collected from the opensocial container in order to change the CSS of the player according to her/his gender. I would very much appreciate you opinion : am I thinking right ? Cheers
