Re: avatar.js

On Nov 22, 2012 6:31 AM, "Melvin Carvalho" <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 22 November 2012 15:18, Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@google.com> wrote:
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>> My native name in my preferred script or my Romanized name?
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> Lots of existing work in this area in the last decade or more
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> FOAF, VCard, Portable Contacts, OpenSocial, W3C PIM, Schema.org, Open
Graph Protocol, to name just a few
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> I would hope it were possible to reuse some of the link relations in the
XRD?

Exactly. Let's not ignore that work and clone it poorly.

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>> Etc.
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>> 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.
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>> On Nov 22, 2012 6:14 AM, "Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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
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>>> Hi Paul,
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>>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Paul E. Jones <paulej@packetizer.com>
wrote:
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>>>> Very cool!
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>>>> 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!
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>>> 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
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>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:34 AM!
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>>>> 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:
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>>>> Hello All,
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>>>> This is my first time posting to both the fedsocweb and webfinger
lists. My
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>>>> 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
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>>>> which takes an email address, and uses WebFinger to query the host
portion
>>>> and return the avatar URL, if found.
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>>>> 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
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> First of all great work!  The demo is simple and intuitive, it's great
you
>>>> can see the results right away.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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 ...
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>>>> A demo can be found here:
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>>>> http://silverbucket.github.com/avatar.js/
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>>>> and the repository:
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>>>>  http://github.com/silverbucket/avatar.js
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>>>> Feedback welcome!
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>>>> -Nick
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