[development] Improving theme('username') with inspiration from Facebook

[Rob Barreca]

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.

When using a person's real name with fb:name I use possessive a lot.

A really great FBML tag is fb:pronoun which will render he, him, 
himself, etc. and I use those a ton as well.

I think this would be really nice for core and would fit best in profile 
module. I think *linked, possessive, useyou, objective, firstnameonly* 
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.

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.

-R

Boris Mann wrote:
> On 8/20/07, Chris Johnson <cxjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> 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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