Facebook Cookbook

Tabs

Problem

If my users really like my app, I’d like for them to be able to feature it more prominently on their Profile. Is there anything I can offer them?

Solution

You can give your app the ability to have its own Profile tab, which users can create by clicking on the + symbol tab when they’re viewing their own Profile (Figure 2-35).

Figure 2-35. Add a new tab

Discussion

Your app will get a tab that defaults to roughly the first 15 characters of its name (although users can edit this and override it). Your tab is very similar to a Canvas page in that it has a width of 760 pixels, but different in that it loads in “passive” mode and can’t autoplay any content or JavaScript until it’s activated by a user.