Facebook App Profile Box and Page Tab Changes Coming on August 23
Following months of delays, Facebook has finalized the date for its long-planned removal of application boxes on profiles and reduction in tabbed application widths on Pages. Beginning August 23rd, a little more than two weeks from now, Facebook will do both, according to a blog post today:
Boxes. We will notify users via messaging in profile boxes and in the Help Center that the “Boxes” tab, boxes on profiles and Pages, and application info sections will be going away.
Application Tabs. Next week, we will give Page admins the ability to preview their custom tabs in the new 520 pixel width so they can modify their layouts as needed. All profile and Page tabs will be resized automatically beginning the week of August 23.
The news matters for any developer and market who is creating or updating their applications and landing pages, in that they should make sure they are designing products to fit with the changes.
August 6th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Interesting…I’ll be curious to see if they work on the things that don’t always work, as well. I like the idea of the tab width…
August 7th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
I hope they do something about the limitations on tab apps. They stated in May there would be no limits, but there are clearly limits. They said it was a system wide error that they would have fixed last week, but still no progress or word on when it we be fixed.
August 8th, 2010 at 9:08 am
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August 17th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
I wonder if somebody could confirm for me if the width reduction ONLY applies to the app tab views of an application, such as the one Nike uses here (obviously adjusted for the new width):
http://www.facebook.com/nikefootball?v=app_10467688569&ref=ts
However, the view of that app (without the tab) that you get when you click through on the above tab, is still formatted wide:
http://apps.facebook.com/nike-thechance/home
Can anybody confirm if the second view of that app (iFrame-based) will also be reduced to the new 520 pixel width?
What’s interesting is that Nike has formatted another of their non-tab app views to be narrow…
http://apps.facebook.com/clubkitsapp/