WIP Facebook SimpleCm

[Vishesh Handa]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org>
wrote:

> Yes, exactly, "us" meant "KTp". The fact that proprietary APIs (and even
> more
> so HTML parsing hacks) may change at any point, breaking KTp components
> that
> rel on them, was one of the central reasons why KTp chose to focus on open
> protocols in our vision. So that we can say "Sorry, user, Facebook is not
> our
> focus, so please do not demand from us to make it work".
>

> Of course whether things are released/maintained by KDE as a whole has to
> be
> decided by KDE as a whole, but KTp should stay clear of having to play
> catch-
> up with Facebook's HTML structure.
>

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.

-- 
Vishesh Handa
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