Active Facebook developers are aware of the relatively long application settings page for new and existing applications. According to Brent Goldman, that page will soon be history. Goldman writes that Facebook has “redesigned the application settings editor to help you create and configure your applications much more easily. We’re launching it soon, and you’ll be able to switch back and forth between the old and new editors for a period of time, much like how users could switch between the old and new profiles earlier this year.”
While it isn’t a significant shift, it’s nice to see that Facebook is paying attention to the little things when it comes to improving their platform. While there may be a long list of things that should be added to the platform, the small things can often times makes a huge difference. There are also some new features that will be added to the application settings editor.
There will now be the ability to toggle between a live mode and what is now being renamed “sandbox mode”. These settings will also now be displayed within a tabbed interface. I wonder if group and page settings will soon follow with this new design style. There will also be new features added shortly including “Feed, the data store API, and translations”.
What does this mean for the average user? Absolutely nothing! Everything will remain as is. This is a simple change for application developers.
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A simple change but one that eases the life of a developer. Congrats to FB for streamlining a previously convoluted page.
Comment by Anthony Caponiti — December 1, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
No. of settings increased so much so that they had to split between tabs.. Nothing special.
Comment by too many settings — December 1, 2008 @ 10:04 pm
Anthony, I totally agree!
Let´s see what´s next.
Comment by Patrick Tutaj — December 1, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
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So, the new settings page is very nice looking and well structured, but I cannot change the callbackURL for my applications anymore. We are moving an app into qa and when I try to change the url to their host, i get an error "invalid callback url". My hosts are not resolvable to the outside world yet, which used to be fine. Do you know if the settings form / app now checks the entries to see if they resolve? If so, this is a bit crippling, as there should not be a reason to do so. These values are just returned in the authorization result headers, which is why localhost worked in the past. For now I just swapped out some hostnames and dns records here, but it could be an ongoing problem until we get our apps into public betas.
Comment by Chris Scott — December 18, 2008 @ 8:59 am