On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:27 PM, John Du Hart compwhizii@gmail.com wrote:
There's also the technical problems this would incur. Each of these buttons require yet another HTTP request each, which would make the hard work by RL team moot.
That depends on whether the icons are hosted offsite or not. If the icons are hosted at WMF, we can use data URI embedding as we normally do for icons, and there would be virtually no additional cost. If the icons are hosted offsite, we would indeed incur one extra HTTP request per icon, but we would also be sharing private data (IP address and Referer header) with a third party, which is forbidden in our own privacy policy. This is the reason why we absolutely cannot have the Facebook Like button: Facebook makes you use an FB-hosted button image (and JS too, I think), collects data from every user that views the Like button even if they don't click it (this is the part that violates the privacy policy), and disallows self-hosting.
Roan