Aehso's Output » javascript http://www.xlml.com/aehso John O'Shea's musings, observations and opinions on anything and everything. Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How Facebook Beacon works. http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2007/11/26/how-facebook-beacon-works/ http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2007/11/26/how-facebook-beacon-works/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:58:09 +0000 aehso http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2007/11/26/how-facebook-beacon-works/ Jay Goldman has written up a great deconstruction of the Facebook Beacon Javascript. The Facebook developers have jumped through a few hoops to accommodate the XSS restriction in browsers while implementing Beacon.

Whatever about the privacy concerns that are currently being actively discussed, this non-trivial javascript pattern for sharing data will most likely be used in many other cross site integrations in the future – the absence of a requirement on the client website to implement a complex backend integration is quite compelling…

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