On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:27 PM, John Du Hart <compwhizii(a)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