<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.pfeiffer@kde.org" target="_blank">thomas.pfeiffer@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1jc" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Yes, exactly, "us" meant "KTp". The fact that proprietary APIs (and even more<br>
so HTML parsing hacks) may change at any point, breaking KTp components that<br>
rel on them, was one of the central reasons why KTp chose to focus on open<br>
protocols in our vision. So that we can say "Sorry, user, Facebook is not our<br>
focus, so please do not demand from us to make it work".</div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1jc" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">
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Of course whether things are released/maintained by KDE as a whole has to be<br>
decided by KDE as a whole, but KTp should stay clear of having to play catch-<br>
up with Facebook's HTML structure.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>As a person who has done a decent amount of web-scrapping: web-pages do not actually change that much. Also they have fewer restrictions than official APIs.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><span style="color:rgb(192,192,192)">Vishesh Handa</span><br></div>
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