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I've been doing a lot of Facebook development and find the options for
fb:name very useful. It's a great way to give a site a more personal
feel and for social networking this is a big plus.<br>
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When using a person's real name with fb:name I use possessive a lot.<br>
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A really great FBML tag is fb:pronoun which will render he, him,
himself, etc. and I use those a ton as well.<br>
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I think this would be really nice for core and would fit best in
profile module. I think <b>linked, possessive, useyou, objective,
firstnameonly</b> are some good places to start. But for this to work
we'd need a Display Name field (there is a patch for this somewhere)
and an optional Gender field for pronoun stuff.<br>
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Also, for people worried about internationalization...Facebook allows
tons of crazy UTF-8 names so they have a way to deal with all these
situations. What that is, I'm not sure, but we could just emulate what
they do.<br>
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-R<br>
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Boris Mann wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 8/20/07, Chris Johnson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cxjohnson@gmail.com"><cxjohnson@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I don't know that all of the Facebook options are useful to us, and it
seems like a couple might problematic for localization and
internationalization. Still, it would be nice to have a some
flexibility in styling user names in core.
How about something like pluggable "theme-lets" or "micro-themes," so
site owners can pick and choose which things they want special theming
applied to, without getting a huge barrel full of unwanted extra code,
sort of like enabling additional types in CCK?
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I think the main point was "what are the minimal set of useful items
that could go into core?". If the answer is "none", then the whole
thing could be done as a contrib module.
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