It was declared
recently that Facebook Inc(NASDAQ:FB) would be enacting a few alterations in
Open Graph. It would require developers to enhance the quality of their apps while
increasing user contentment across the platform. Facebook has more details on
those changes now.
When the weekly
Operation Developer Love update was going on, Facebook had said that developers
will have to watch out for three crucial changes to the Open Graph API. The
first one is the removal of the Authenticated Referrals feature. In place of
that, developers would have to apply the Auth Dialog. They will also be
removing the ability to post to a user’s friends’ walls through Graph API, however
developers can still use feed dialog. As for the third one, custom Open Graph
actions are no longer allowed in apps that involuntarily push stories as users
use content. Developers will have to use built-in actions for such
functionality.
Developers may also be
acquainted with the fat the Facebook has enabled a change that results in the
picture Graph API to return a dictionary. They figured out that the change has
caught some developers off the guard even when they had 90 days to get ready. As
a response, Facebook has extended the migration period to 6th
February of 2013. Developers, who are interested, can check out the Developer
Roadmap for more details.
The last update for
this week is a short reminder that Facebook will start taking off internal
features from the JavaScript SDK interface. Developers can check the console to
ensure if any internal features are presently in use.
Facebook has been
squeezing bugs left and right. There were reportedly 182 bugs this week, 28 of
which have been fixed and 17 have been accepted for further review.
Developers obviously
now have to go back to their apps and make the suitable changes to include them
to Facebook’s new code.
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