OpenSocial vs. Facebook API – an analysis
Posted on November 2nd, 2007 by miron
Executive Summary
- OpenSocial applications will have diverging look-and-feel, from each other and from the containers. This is because the containers do not provide common elements to blend the application into the container.
- OpenSocial applications may not be vertically resizable, since they will exist in an iframe. However, Google has an API For resizing that some or all of the networks may implement
- Facebook has additional API functionality that is not present in OpenSocial
- The Facebook API is server oriented, whereas the OpenSocial/Google Gadgets API is client-side JavaScript oriented