Social Media Buttons
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/29544/The-Ultimate-Cheat-Sheet-for-Creating-Social-Media-Buttons.aspx
I've attached the file I created based on that blog and links to developer tools on Facebook and Google Plus.
I don't have a website set up, so am just opening the HTML file in Internet Explorer.
The Twitter and Reddit buttons work, bringing up login pages for those sites, but the Facebook and Google Plus buttons don't work.
Questions:
1. Am I doing something wrong in the code?
2. Would those buttons work if they were on a real website rather than just my test HTML file?
3. Why do the Twitter and Reddit buttons work when the Facebook and Google Plus buttons don't?
social-netowrk-button.html
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Start your 7-day free trialThanks - great explanation (I couldn't have said it better myself ;-) )
<< (click your attachment above to see it work on EE's server) >>
Wow! I never would have thought of that.
<< if the Facebook script is testing for a header response from www.HERPDERP.INSERTURLHERE.com >>
Double wow! After my own failed attempts at this, I asked my son to take a stab at it. I didn't notice that he had put what he called LOL code in there.
As soon as I changed that to a real URL, it worked as an EE attachment -- see the attachment in my last comment. (herp derp.)
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It's certainly possible given the instructions on that page are fairly unclear as the author goes into every possible permutation of social buttons. So you may be conflating code from multiple sources...hard to say looking at the sample (q.v.)
They would be different, yes. The test file, especially a local one, doesn't have a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) and addressable URL and if the script being used to generate the button checks for that sort of thing, it would act differently. You always want to test from a web server when possible.
The Twitter button is just a simple link (<a> tag) so it will always work. However, it will only show as a link because the CSS class "twitter-share-button" doesn't have a matching CSS file to work with.
The Reddit button is the same thing only combined with a full URL src'd image. So that one looks and acts okay.
Google+ is using javascript to generate itself so it may not work from a local file preview but it should work fine on a real server (click your attachment above to see it work on EE's server).
The Facebook button is also using javascript to generate itself so it may need a full working server to be seen properly. Additionally, you have a local image reference in that div: src="images/JFTIwebsite_lo