Armchairware blog

The logging in to Facebook experience in Photato leaves something to be desired.  Unfortunately Facebook themselves require that all 3rd party desktop applications use their login web pages to log a user into Facebook.  This is normally only a one time process for a given user on a particular PC, so it’s not a major problem, but it is one that I want to make a smooth as I possibly can.

In previous versions I have used a simple seperate pop-up window to load the web page.  This was easy to develop, but not very suited to Media Center especially since it doesn’t work on an extender.  The current beta has the web page displayed in the main Media Center application which I feel is better, but because it’s a web page provided by Facebook, it’s not designed to be interacted with with a remote control, although a keyboard is sufficient.  I’d be interested to hear people’s views on how well this works, please either leave a comment here, or preferably post some feedback in the forum.

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