I’ve been playing with Facebook Share recently, and discovered that you can get SWF animations to show up in-line IF (and only IF) you’re whitelisted by Facebook. Probably a sensible approach, given the sorts of mischief that can be gotten into with ActionScript.
But there are no obvious approval criteria anywhere, and the email I received acknowledging my whitelist request implies that they won’t contact me at all if my request is turned down – there will be no explanation of what I should do to get whitelisted. So I just have to wait, and if I don’t hear back within a week I can assume that a small private blog doesn’t meet the criteria.
Not the end of the world – I really just want to play with it and maybe post a tutorial about it. But too bad that there’s no “Facebook Share” development sandbox where I could try this stuff out.
References:
- http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Share
- http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Share/Specifying_Meta_Tags
Update: It seems they do in fact notify you when they’ve reviewed (and rejected) your site. How very civilized! Alas, my server was down when they were trying to review it. It’s hosted at EasySpeedy.com (recommended) and for some reason, ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04, I periodically lose my DHCP lease and can’t get it back without a reboot. I don’t know why the upgrade should cause this, but I’ll probably just get rid of DHCP since I do, in fact, have a static IP address. If that solves the stability problem then I’ll resubmit my application. Nice to know that the Facebook people will notify me when they reject me next time 
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