Facebook broke the internet(developers.facebook.com)

35 pointsby zachallia14 anni fa20 comments

developers.facebook.com

http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/203275643103137

22 comments

foxhop14 anni fa

What is more upsetting? Facebook really broke the internet when it put a LOGIN WALL in front of content.

Why should I have to login to facebook to view that page?

Facebook broke the internet for completely different reasons.

marshray14 anni fa

So I'm getting the picture that Facebook didn't break the internet. Facebook broke a bunch of websites that made the intentional design decision to depend on Facebook for their own availability.

Is this right?

jfornear14 anni fa

Right, like http://openpoke.org stayed up.

nilved14 anni fa

Another reason why Connect shouldn't be your only sign-in option. :)

artursapek14 anni fa

Talk about timely, right?

AznHisoka14 anni fa

I'm still awaiting the day when the Google CDN version of JQuery goes down.

simonsarris14 anni fa

In case others are wondering, its quite easy to make a "fallback" when using CDN scripts. For instance:

  <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.js"></script>  
  <script>window.jQuery || document.write("<script src='js/libs/jquery-1.6.4.min.js'></script>")</script>

Could save all such sites that rely on Google CDN jQuery

FlemishBeeCycle14 anni fa

That's been one of my concerns, the best way to circumvent that issue is to do something like the following:

   <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
   <script>window.jQuery || document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='/path/to/jquery.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));</script>

This way it will fallback to a local copy if Google's goes down.

[Edit: simonsarris replied with something similar as I was replying, however, the advantage of using unescape is that you don't get invalid markup warnings]

nbpoole14 anni fa

It happened almost a year ago!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398095

zachallia14 anni fa

doomsday

Encryptor14 anni fa

veyron14 anni fa

Is there a way to see this content without a facebook account?

evanwalsh14 anni fa

Here's a screenshot: http://cl.ly/Du20/o

veyron14 anni fa

Thanks! By the way: that app (I just downloaded Cloud) is really slick.

zachallia14 anni fa

ah, sorry.. i didn't realize it was only devs that had access to the bug site

zachallia14 anni fa

Kinda crazy how many sites rely on the Facebook JS SDK for login and other stuff. Definitely still ways to access the API, but if you don't have good fallbacks, you're screwed.

harryh14 anni fa

FYI the incident appears to have lasted from approx 6:55pm PST to 8:22pm PST for a total of 87 minutes.

X-Istence14 anni fa

What did Facebook break? My internet seems to have been functioning and still functions perfectly.

[deleted]14 anni fa

jdale2714 anni fa

Gee, I didn't notice...

rokhayakebe14 anni fa

Really? I've been online all day, and I didn't notice.

notatoad14 anni fa

this is the second story on the front page right now claiming something "broke the internet". can we stop this sensationalist tripe before it goes any further?