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Facebook Canvas is the application environment for 3rd party Games & Applications that live within Facebook, in a framed environment. Page displayed can be fetched from other websites.

Facebook Canvas is the application environment for 3rd party Games & Applications that live within Facebook, in a framed environment. Page displayed can be fetched from other websites.

Facebook Canvas Application Development documentation

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Did Facebook just change their layout for canvas apps with Fixed width (760px)?

I noticed that yesterday all the Fixed-width canvas apps started looking strange: the Facebook chrome is pushed away from the canvas and takes up all the browser page's width, as it does for Fluid-width apps (see Farmville for example). Is this a…
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Can I require the use of HTTPS for canvas urls to protect signed_request contents?

I am writing a new canvas app using the iframe approach. My backend supports both HTTP and HTTPS for the canvas responses, but it seems by default Facebook puts users on HTTP and sends all the important credentials (i.e. access tokens in the…
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Facebook page tab app "Content blocked" error

Facebook Page tab app gives 'This content is blocked. Contact the site owner to fix the issue.' from Morning. previously these were working for years. Does something changed on Facebook End for page tab apps. But nothing has been mentioned here Is…
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Not able to create app for plaltform facebook canvas

I have a app ( web, ios and android ).I want to the create a Facebook canvas app where it will only show the first page of our web app.To achieve this.I created a Facebook canvas app in Facebook developer console.I filled the details which was…
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facebook app not working on mobiles

I have a Facebook app (canvas app), let's say https://apps.facebook.com/test, that redirects and works as expected on the desktop (on all browsers that I have tested). On mobile phones (both from the FB app and the browser) the path gets redirected…
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Facebook OpenGraph Story link to app on Facebook

I am working on an game app contained in Facebook via the Canvas. The game consists of several order-independent 'levels' that each correlate to an entry in a database. Metaphorically, you can think of it as similar to hangman in that the game is…
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Facebook Canvas App: SSL connection error

I'm trying to make a Facebook canvas app, eventually to be hosted on Heroku, but right now it's on localhost. I can sign in to my app on local host with Facebook, but when I try to visit the app (which is just an html page right now) on Facebook, I…
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How to avoid Internet Explorer's "Webpage has expired" when using the back button with an app inside a Page Tab?

I've built a Facebook canvas app, which has been added as a Page Tab. In Internet Explorer, when I click a link from the homepage of the page tab to another page, and then press the browser back button, I get a message from IE: Webpage has expired …
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Facebook Policy on Running Canvas App Outside iFrame?

I am currently working on a Facebook app. At the moment it is running in the canvas iFrame. However, ideally I would like it to also be accessible outside of the iFrame as well - much like Branchout is accessible within Facebook and also independent…
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How to track 2 different google analytic profiles (main and test) under the same account and property name?

I am using google analytics event tracking to track 2 Facebook canvas application. (they are similar just that one is for production and another is for development). Since they are 2 separate canvas application, both have a different canvas…
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Why does sandbox app also need secure canvas url?

I already enabled sandbox mode, but still not allowed to save changes without https canvas url. This makes it a lot harder to test any canvas page related changes.
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What's the best way to internationalize a Facebook canvas app (iframe) in the post-FBML era?

After (finally) adding some analytics to my Facebook app and realizing that English is pretty far down on the list of my users' languages, I started to look into the official docs on internationalization. However, the docs almost entirely refer to…
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Facebook Canvas App with a Fixed Position div

Is there a way to show a fixed position div in a Canvas app with a "setAutoGrow()" turned on ? I want to be able to show a Feedback widget that will always be visible to the user, even when scrolling up an down.
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Facebook: stay in canvas after oauth callback

I'm working on an app using facebook & oauth. The app lives inside a facebook canvas, and the authentication is done server side. The app is done w/ Ruby on Rails 3.2, using Koala for dealing with the api (and mongodb as backend, for what it's…
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Facebook mobile web application started throwing API Error Code:196

I have a web application which is configured as a canvas web application in facebook and also has provided a mobile url where mobile specific page is served from the web server. Application has been running for about 3 months and starting last week…
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