-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Loic Dachary wrote: > 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 ? > Please ignore this mail. It all comes from a misunderstanding. Thanks for not flaming me ;-)
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