News: Facebook Chat Enhancements and CSS in FBML
Facebook announced last night that do to the popularity and response to their Facebook Chat feature they will be expanding the features of it. One of the first expansions of the chat service will be integration with Jabber/XMPP software. Soon you will be able to use Jabber/XMPP to connect with friends that are signed on Facebook,, see which friends are on and view their profile pictures, and set your Facebook Status.
This will be expanding to other chat applications as well. You will be able to securely authorize programs to connect to Facebook Chat on your behalf. Look for this in the near future and if you would like to send feedback about this feature to Facebook, you can do so at developer-feedback@facebook.com. Please put [Chat Via Jabber] as the subject line.
Also For API Users:
If you are using script or css includes in FBML you shouldn’t change the urls of those references unnecessarily. If your app is constantly changing these references, it is going to mess up the Facebook cache and may result in your fetches having a limit put on them and result in an error message.
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