(Don't know where my previous message went, so I'm posting again) The Facebook API does allow applications full access to the user's and his friends' photos. I hope that OpenSocial containers can provide that as well.
>From the point of view of a user, being able to benefit from a gadget that can show them everything they could see in the website brings a lot of advantages and simplicity. Otherwise, the user will use the gadget to view his photos, then have to go to the website to view his friends'... That greatly reduces the useful of the gadget. On Mar 17, 9:37 pm, anatoly <anato...@gmail.com> wrote: > user != API > > API can be used to automatically steal all photos from the site. > > Permission granted by a user for the gadget to use her friends photos > is not relevant. > Other users must explicitly change their permissions to allow 3rd > parties to access their photos via API via a friend. > > hope this clears something > > On Mar 17, 9:11 pm, Pierre Henri Kuate <phku...@kleartouch.com> wrote: > > > Hi Vijaya, > > > I expressed my concerns in another > > thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/... > > > I don't understand what the goal of this new policy. > > > Basically, by using the Orkut website, a user has access to (all) his > > own photos as well as to his friends photos (those that the friends > > shared with him). > > What I would like is for the API to provide the same level of access. > > Every photo you can see using the Orkut website should also be > > accessible using a gadget. And without having to grant this access > > more than once (at the installation is enough). > > > Also, I hope the checkbox "Allow access to photos" will be checked by > > default (like the others)... Read the other thread for details. > > > What do you think? > > > Pierre Henri. > > > On Mar 17, 8:05 pm, Vijaya <api.vij...@google.com> wrote: > > > > The orkut team has been discussing about these concerns and has > > > decided to implement dynamic permission-granting for allowing apps to > > > access albums i.e. if the user has installed an app, at the time of > > > loading it, if the app gets denied access to his albums, he will be > > > prompted asking if he'd like to allow the app to access his albums. > > > This features should be available on the sandbox in a couple of weeks. > > > > Does this address some of your concerns? Please post your feedback. > > > > Thanks > > > Vijaya- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
