- From: Nick Jennings <nick@silverbucket.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:09:47 +0100
- To: ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>
- Cc: public-fedsocweb <public-fedsocweb@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAJL4WtY=Jm69hJUmyQ2avLAZb9arGVwzrd1BuxAcM_fVO+daww@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:24 PM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ < perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org> wrote: > Excerpts from Nick Jennings's message of 2012-11-21 10:25:33 +0000: > > Hello All, > > > > This is my first time posting to both the fedsocweb and webfinger lists. > > My name is Nick Jennings and I'm a long-time open-source hacker, though > > until recently I haven't been very active in the problem domain of the > open > > social web. Michiel de Jong and I have been working on a simple avatar.js > > library which takes an email address, and uses WebFinger to query the > host > > portion and return the avatar URL, if found. > > > > It currently uses the /.well-known/host-meta.json endpoint as it's > > starting default, then falls back to host-meta (if not found). Likewise > > with HTTPS falling back to HTTP. I see there is a WebFinger draft 3 in > > progress which will change the endpoint to /.well-known/webfinger, so > I'll > > update that as the default soon, with a fallback to host-meta*. Of > course, > > the server will need to support CORS since this is a pure JavaScript > > browser client library, so it doesn't work with gmail.com email > addresses. > > > > A demo can be found here: > > http://silverbucket.github.com/avatar.js/ > > > > and the repository: > > http://github.com/silverbucket/avatar.js > > > > > > Feedback welcome! > > -Nick > > Hey Nick, > > You may consider pinging folks working on https://www.libravatar.org :) > > Cheers! > Hey! Thanks for the heads up and putting them on my radar :) -Nick
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