[Developers] Using the Freebase.com client as an IFRAME your own web app

[brendan]

The archiportal app has two uses for the iframe:

1. allow the user to get a topic view of the architect or the  
building.  This is nice because, well, the freebase client is really  
good at dynamically displaying a topic, even in the face of schema  
changes.

2. allow the user to edit a small subset of building properties:

   * the architect
   * the date it was built
   * the address
   * the geocode

So, I think one decent solution is to have built in editing forms for  
this small set of properties, then use the iframes as "detailed view".  
I guess the problem still remains that the user could edit those key  
properties in the iframe, but they would be much less likely to do so  
if a faster path were presented prominently.

Brendan

On Mar 26, 2008, at 7:05 PM, John Giannandrea wrote:

>
> Will Moffat wrote:
>>> you could do a tiny MQL query to the graph to check the timestamp of
>>> the last link written by that user.
>> I was thinking along those lines, but it seems to be a catch-22
>> situation. You need access to the 'metaweb-user' cookie to get the
>> user name.
>
> True.  But you did send the iframe off to edit something, like a
> topic, so you could check if that object had changes since the time
> you launched the iframe.  If someone else updated it it might be nice
> to get the latest anyway.
>
> I agree, this is all rather hard. Does your app want to edit known
> properties on the topic, or just generally update it all?  If the
> former perhaps google code needs a form element based property update
> library...
>
> -jg
>
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