[dev] [commits] Horde branch imp_6_2 updated. 0fa15349873ed70b3ba3ea8cf7510d881ec5310f

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>>
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>>>> commit ffce87fec5f8b48b21700508ad5b67b60474fb9e
>>>> Author: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
>>>> Date:   Wed Oct 2 10:26:28 2013 -0600
>>>>
>>>>  [mms] Add support for showing a contact image in the contacts  
>>>> popup box in dynamic view.
>>>
>>> Nice!
>>>
>>> It's been on my list for a while to do something similar in  
>>> Kronolith's attendees dropdown, thanks!
>>
>> As with other new features, this may eventually be useful to  
>> abstract out.  But for now I'm going to leave in IMP so that we can  
>> adjust/tweak as necessary, even after 6.2 is released.
>
> Sounds good.
>
>> 1) You can't directly search your Facebook contacts via e-mail  
>> anymore (as of this summer).
>
> When this was originally written, you couldn't do that anyway.

According to Facebook API docs. this was only changed in June.  (There  
was no way to do a specific email field search previously, but doing a  
basic search for a name in the format x at example.com was apparently  
doing an email search transparently on the server-side).

> That's why the entire friends list is returned. Not to mention, the  
> email address was only returned if the user allowed it to be  
> returned - and even then it was a facebook proxied address. Not sure  
> if/when this changed - haven't looked at the API in a while. My  
> original commit even mentioned that this is probably only useful as  
> a listTimeObjects source for birthdays, or maybe eventually to list  
> your contacts's most recent status in the turba display etc...

That's one of the concerns I would have about a gravatar backend.  It  
makes sense conceptually from the sense that Turba is the application  
dedicated to contacts storage/retrieval.  But it makes little/no sense  
to allow a user to "browse" the backend, or do other searches on it,  
or allowing adding to it.  So it doesn't fit the current concept of a  
Turba_Driver object either.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]