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Mar 13, 2009
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- Casey Muller
We looked pretty hard Mark, but couldn't find a way. I'd love to know if there's some way to do it in Air.
- Casey Muller
Not bad, if you're into that kind of thing.
- Ron Bailey
I wonder why it asks for password instead of remote key. Aren't remote keys designed for third party usage patterns such as notifiers etc? I mean, Fftogo works with remote key, why shouldn't notifier do so as well?
- [email protected]
Wonderwool, the notifier is first party usage :-)
- Casey Muller
Casey, technically — yes (being built and offered by friendfeed and all), but everything that's not under friendfeed.com domain (be it a service or an app) is "outside service", which should be treated as a point of possible attack and thus sandboxed or made safe otherwise. If you take a look at flickr uploader, it uses the same model as any service that's not flickr.com — log into flickr, push "authorize" button, then revoke permission when you get bored. Remote keys are similar idea, and it's strange that notifier (a read-only tool) uses password instead of RK.
- [email protected]
Good points Wonderwool, and we thought about both options. One thing to keep in mind about Air though, is that it's a browser technology, and even shares cookies with your web browser. So logging in to the notifier app is exactly the same level of security risk as logging in to friendfeed.com with Safari or IE.
- Casey Muller
Thanks for the suggestion Mark, those kind of preferences are definitely on our to-do list.
- Casey Muller
ERROR: When I run the AIR app, nothing happens. I see the "ff" icon in the system tray. If I right-click and choose "Settings", the notification window pops-up for a half-second, and then disappears. If I right-click and choose "Settings" again, nothing happens. I've uninstalled the app, reinstalled the app, restarted the computer. Always the same result. Other AIR apps work fine (Tweetdeck for example). I'm running Windows XP, Firefox 3.0.7 and IE 8.
- Nathan Chase
Sorry about the trouble Nathan, can you try again now?
- Casey Muller
Casey - Yes! It works now. Was there something broken on my profile on your end to interface with the app? It started working as soon as you posted.
- Nathan Chase
Yes, I reset your notifier settings to the defaults, thanks for bearing with us.
- Casey Muller
@Casey - no problem - just wanted to help so that you knew of any bugs. Thanks!
- Nathan Chase
IDEA: This notifier would be the perfect vehicle to work out showing direct responses to posts I've made. Showing responses to posts that I've commented on would also be a big help - as the current process of going to my http://friendfeed.com/nathanc... page and combing through the posts to see what's been updated is not ideal. So some thoughts for you - to have that functionality as toggles in addition to selecting from one's Lists. Thanks!
- Nathan Chase