Hehe, no worries, I love problems that solve them selves :) On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Loic Dachary <l...@dachary.org> wrote:
> -----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 ;-) > > Cheers > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpXft8ACgkQ8dLMyEl6F20wKwCeJTwLEGeXRqJqxM1F3AW+7PRB > BfUAnibgp2kHCzFPEWR/O+krhc7mprZE > =GNCz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
