Comments on: Facebook App Woes

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:48:15 +0000

Rich – I actually got the Analytics working by embedding the code the normal way. The Analytics actually point to the server where our app is hosted, rather than the Facebook URL. I agree though, it’s a pain in the ass

By: Rich Sadowsky

Rich Sadowsky — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:18:31 +0000

I’ve been working on a FB app for about a month too. I have found it much more difficult than it needs to be. For one the documentation is out of date or non-existent. Some standard things like google analytics don’t work properly in an iFrame. It looks like the FBML route supports a GA tag, but so far there is no apparent solution for an iFrame.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:04:26 +0000

Ken – if you prefix the URLs with the Facebook domain, e.g. http://apps.facebook.com/yourappname/yoururl – you need to add target=”_top” to the link to get it to load in the parent window, rather than inside the iframe.

By: Ken Hoskins

Ken Hoskins — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:35:40 +0000

I have an app I have been working on for about a month. I went the iframe route also and it worked fine till today. All of a sudden it has started losing it’s frame like you experienced. I tried to prefix the pages with the facebook url but that causes it to have 2 frames. So I converted everything to FBML only to discover that a flash app won’t post back to my website when I do that. It has been a very frustrating day.