Re: avatar.js

On 22 November 2012 15:18, Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@google.com> wrote:

> My native name in my preferred script or my Romanized name?
>
Lots of existing work in this area in the last decade or more

FOAF, VCard, Portable Contacts, OpenSocial, W3C PIM, Schema.org, Open Graph
Protocol, to name just a few

I would hope it were possible to reuse some of the link relations in the
XRD?


> Etc.
>
> Fine to add some of these things but we (here, now) don't necessarily have
> to, especially if it leads to distraction from shipping something flexible.
> On Nov 22, 2012 6:14 AM, "Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com> wrote:
>
>> Many of the types in the current spec are just examples and not defined,
>> yet. The webfinger.net ones are used today by people.
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>> I'm not sure why nobody defined a name field. Perhaps they thought it was
>> enough to just grab the vcard? A name field with the person's preferred
>> name and in the right order would be useful, I think.
>>
>> Paul
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>> *From:* Nick Jennings <nick@silverbucket.net>
>> *Sent:* Thu Nov 22 04:19:13 EST 2012
>> *To:* "Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com>
>> *Cc:* webfinger@googlegroups.com, public-fedsocweb@w3.org
>> *Subject:* Re: avatar.js
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Paul E. Jones <paulej@packetizer.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Very cool!
>>>
>>> I’d like to see a whole profile page built when a user ID is entered, but
>>> this is definitely a good start that demonstrates that it’s working!
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, I plan to extend the library to add this information, one thing I
>> thought was odd is, why do we have entries for avatar, blog, etc. but
>> not an entry for 'full name'?
>>
>>
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>>> From: webfinger@googlegroups.com [mailto:webfinger@googlegroups.com] On
>>> Behalf Of Melvin Carvalho
>>>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:34 AM!
>>>
>>> To: Nick Jennings
>>> Cc: public-fedsocweb@w3.org; webfinger@googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: Re: avatar.js
>>>
>>>
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>>> On 21 November 2012 11:25, Nick Jennings <nick@silverbucket.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 end!
>>>  point 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> First of all great work!  The demo is simple and intuitive, it's great you
>>> can see the results right away.
>>>
>>> One thing that we do sometimes is fall back to a CORS proxy when the remote
>>> server does not offer CORS.  I'm surprised gmail does not.
>>>
>>> Any plans to support other identifiers that have an avatar such as http?
>>> Then you can get avatars from indieweb users, facebook, tent.io etc. too ...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A demo can be found here:
>>>
>>> http://silverbucket.github.com/avatar.js/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> and the repository:
>>>
>>> !
>>>  http://github.com/silverbucket/avatar.js
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Feedback welcome!
>>>
>>> -Nick
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