- From: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:13:38 -0500
- To: Thomas Fruin <thomasfruin@mac.com>, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org, David Recordon <davidrecordon@facebook.com>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
Hi, Apparently, the 'fb:' pseudo-URI scheme has escaped seriously into the visible user environment - the replacement of real 'http:' URIs with equivalent (???) 'fb:' URIs described below by Thomas is a spectacular bug. Cheers, - Ira On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Fruin <thomasfruin@mac.com> wrote: > On 16 feb 2010, at 22:39, Dan Brickley wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Daniel R. Tobias <dan@tobias.name> wrote: >>> I just noticed that the iPhone Facebook app, when you enable its >>> recently-added feature to sync your Facebook friends with your iPhone >>> contacts, inserts URIs for each person of the form: >>> >>> fb://profile/771025267 > > Unfortunately the FaceBook app doesn't just _insert_ these types of URI's. It also seems to _replace_ already existing URI's of the type http://www.facebook.com/profilename with the new fb:// pseudo URI's. > > This means that due to iPhone/Mac syncing, all such URI's that I had manually added to my Mac's contacts have now been converted into fb:// strings, which are unfortunately not very useful on my computer :-( Hopefully this bug will be fixed. > > -- Thomas Fruin > > >
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