Facebook Connect XFBML not working

Question

I'm making a website using Facebook Connect and decided to use Facebook's XFBML tags like "fb:profile-pic" since they are so easy to use.

I haven't been able to make them work no matter how hard I look online but then I noticed that it worked on all the browser's instead of Firefox.

I also realized that even on Facebook's own "The Run Around" sample app they don't work!! You can check it out here: http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/therunaround/index.php

If you log in with Firefox your picture is not shown, but if you use another browser it is shown. This happens with the fb:profile-pic tag or any other tag like fb:name.

I haven't found any information online so I'm asking other people that have worked with this: Are these tags simply not compatible with Firefox ? Do they have outages or something like that ? Has this happened to anyone before ? Any ideas on how to resolve this ?

Answer 1

Open up Firefox > Preferences > Privacy and make sure "Accept third party cookies" is checked. This is needed for Facebook Connect to work. Also, when using Connect, make sure all your tags are fully closed, i.e. <fb:profile-pic></fb:profile-pic> and not <fb:profile-pic/>. From the docs:

The user's browser must be set to accept 3rd Party Cookies in order for it to stay connected between clicks.

Source: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Logging_In_And_Connecting

FWIW, I wouldn't use "the run around" as a sample app. That thing has been the same since they introduced Connect and is pretty hacky.

Answer 2

I guess they do have "outages". I've spent the whole weekend trying to resolve this and now they post they had a problem and have resolved it.

From the Platform Live Status website:

http://developers.facebook.com/live_status.php#msg_497

We are experiencing a possible config problem with api.connect.facebook.com. If you are including Connect JS library through http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api%5Flib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php, all API requests through JavaScript would fail. This affects rendering of XFBML tags (such as fb:name and fb:profile-pic) as well. While we are fixing this issue, you can work around the problem by changing http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api%5Flib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php to http://static.ak.facebook.com/js/api%5Flib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php. It's also safe to keep url change permanently because connect.facebook.com is just an alias to facebook.com.

I wish they had updated that sooner, now I'm looking for a place to find out about this stuff before I spend days working on something before realizing it's not a problem with my code!

Answer 3

do check in connect section under the canvas option. there should be a link of your physical file.