804930 - Like button should be grouped with SocialAPI Icons (Facebook Buttons)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 853151

(Firefox Graveyard :: SocialAPI, defect)

Description

[Austin King [:ozten]]

I enjoyed playing with FB Social APIs all day (15+ hours).

I wasn't able to share or find the "recommend" feature the naturally, so I set tdown and systematically looked through bugzilla.

I found https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765874 which caused be to see that... there is an ackward like icon in the address bar.

Perhaps with more training, I would know to look there, but I never look in the address bar and completely missed this new peppering of chrome into my address bar.

I expected a LIKE or STATUS UPDATE feature in the group of buttons where the 4 FB buttons are.

Comment 1

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

I'm inclined to agree.  OTOH, it could be done now if the providers so choose as they can make as many buttons/panels as they like.  It wouldn't be possible to be 1-click recommending, but that's almost an anti-feature in itself.

Comment 2

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

Actually, a recommend panel couldn't currently be implemented - it has no access the currently open URL (which is a per-requisite).  However giving that URL to every panel as it opens has privacy implications.

So it's not quite as simple as "use a new toolbar icon/panel"

Comment 3

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

Share is being reworked in bug 818675.  One requirement under consideration for share is that we support non-social-provider share providers, which would necessitate the button being on its own rather than as a part of the social provider button.