build a "gittip" button / widget a la facebook like, tweet, google +1, etc.

[chadwhitacre]

This should be doable with the tip.json API.

Examples

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button
http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/

[chadwhitacre]

See also #21, which is a dynamic PNG (this is a javascript widget).

[chadwhitacre]

From @timothyfcook:

For confident do-gooders out there who are sharing their work with others (for free), we should enable them to solicit Tips on their personal sites via a Gittip widget; some sort of embedded Gittip-branded box.

Essentially, it is the guitar case open in front of the street musician.

This Gittip-box would appear on people's blogs, personal sites, project sites, etc. in order to solicit Gittips. This will help spread the reaches of Gittip to the outer edges of the interweb!

[chadwhitacre]

This needs to be an iframe that hits tip.json.

[chadwhitacre]

@d0ugal, we good on security here?

[d0ugal]

If its all in an iframe it should be fine, I guess your only risk is clickjacking, but I don't know much about that to be honest.

I've not actually read the code though, I could have a cursory read over the next few days if that helps.

[chadwhitacre]

I'm not too worried about it as it just links to your profile. No POST from
the iframe. More eyes never hurts.

chad

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Dougal Matthews <
[email protected]

wrote:

If its all in an iframe it should be fine, I guess your only risk is
clickjacking, but I don't know much about that to be honest.

I've not actually read the code though, I could have a cursory read over
the next few days if that helps.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/41#issuecomment-6973992

[chrismdp]

One issue: needs closing </iframe> tag to work in my Jekyll layout.

Other than that, great start! See it at the bottom of http://chrismdp.github.com :)

[akoumjian]

Will the iframe work on, say, a github readme that uses markdown? What about rst?

[d0ugal]

So, think I'm missing something. What is the purpose of the iframe if all it does is act like a link? Why don't we just use a button/anchor?

[d0ugal]

Hmm, nevermind. I miss understood - I see its so the button can change and perform tips. It looks like its not working in @chrismdp's site. It always just shows "Gittip" for me when logged in or not.

[chrismdp]

Odd -- appears to be working for me (at least, I can see "You!" at the bottom of my blog when signed in...)

[d0ugal]

Heh, ok. It's just me being slow again. It is working. False alarm.