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Twitter / Dreamwidth Interaction
May. 26th, 2009 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomSo, like many people, I have both a Twitter and DW account, and I've been trying to figure out how to integrate them intelligently, since I find the automated Twitter daily posts incredibly annoying in other people's journal.
So, one thing that I was playing with was seeing if DW's styling code would allow me to embed the Twitter embedded feeds And the answer seems to be clearly that no, you can't embed it - I tried both putting it in Transmogrified as custom text, and putting it in a custom S1 style as a hard-code print command right after the sidebar was drawn, and both had the scripts stripped. That seems to be the case whether you use the Flash object or the JavaScript HTML embed version. (As an aside, since people load other people's pages in their own styles sometimes, I think it's the right call for the JS - I'm a little more surprised about the Flash, but I assume that it's to prevent embedded advertising by adver-bots.)
But I'm wondering if the S2 modules could give an option of actually creating a Twitter module, that would simply take as a username as an option (presumably in Text / Options in the "Customize Styles"), and then display the badge controlling the code that's used, so there's no risk of problems with XSS or adver-bots? Would there be interest from the development team in this? If so, is there anyone who is interested in doing this, since I've got way more experience in PHP and Java development than Perl? If there's interest in the feature but no one wants to jump on it, would someone who has been working on the DW codebase be willing to give me some pointers and do a code review for me?
So, one thing that I was playing with was seeing if DW's styling code would allow me to embed the Twitter embedded feeds And the answer seems to be clearly that no, you can't embed it - I tried both putting it in Transmogrified as custom text, and putting it in a custom S1 style as a hard-code print command right after the sidebar was drawn, and both had the scripts stripped. That seems to be the case whether you use the Flash object or the JavaScript HTML embed version. (As an aside, since people load other people's pages in their own styles sometimes, I think it's the right call for the JS - I'm a little more surprised about the Flash, but I assume that it's to prevent embedded advertising by adver-bots.)
But I'm wondering if the S2 modules could give an option of actually creating a Twitter module, that would simply take as a username as an option (presumably in Text / Options in the "Customize Styles"), and then display the badge controlling the code that's used, so there's no risk of problems with XSS or adver-bots? Would there be interest from the development team in this? If so, is there anyone who is interested in doing this, since I've got way more experience in PHP and Java development than Perl? If there's interest in the feature but no one wants to jump on it, would someone who has been working on the DW codebase be willing to give me some pointers and do a code review for me?