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Autocomplete friends’ names – Unsatisfactory Progress

2010.26.07

I spent a while today trying to get auto-complete of friend names working. I tried several different mechanisms:

I added jQuery to Buzzbird, and tried to use it on XUL documents directly. I hoped that XUL and HTML were similar enough that I’d be able to use a jQuery autocomplete plugin to do the autocompletion, but [...]

I’m not dead. No, really. I’m not.

2010.28.06

Okay, so here’s the deal.
OAuth sucks. Why does it suck? Because it was not designed for desktop applications. It was definitely not designed for open source desktop applications. What do I mean by that?
One of the things that OAuth tries to do is verify that the application requesting access to Twitter really is the application [...]