Debugging the application's frame within Facebook

Debugging Facebook Applications for Fun and Profit – Firefox 4 & Firebug

By On April 4, 2011 · 1 Comment

Are you Facebook developer and frustrated by your inability to use a JavaScript console to debug your application on Facebook? Good news, with the release of Firefox 4 and the latest version of Firebug (1.7.0)- now you can!

To access an iframe Facebook application’s context enter cd(frames[0]); into your Firebug console. [...]

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How to Add an iframe to a FBML Tab

By On February 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Update – Facebook has released iframe support for Tabs. Please use this method of implementing iframes moving forward.

This is a temporary workaround for loading iframes into FBML tabs until FBML is fully deprecated in Q1 of 2011. This method requires a click to activate to load the iframe. Once the deprecation [...]

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fb:comments' Like Button

How to Add a Facebook Like Button to a FBML Tab

By On January 3, 2011 · 6 Comments

Due to Facebook’s restrictions on JavaScript and iFrames within FBML tabs Like Buttons were once considered a feature of the Facebook elite, namely: Canvas Applications and external websites. Thankfully this walled garden is no more, and through a little CSS trickery we can commandeer the fb:comments’ Like button and bring its [...]

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