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"Facebook does not allow Javascript to run on load"

Does this mean you simply can't have dynamic content in one of those tabs (without adding an extra click/link)?

I'd like to connect one of our apps to Facebook in such a way that customer could show their most recent image galleries on their FB fan page.

How would this be accomplished?

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I don't think this is possible with FBJS. You might have to put some old gallery and give users a button to reload. I am not sure but I have heard that after a mouse over, JS will be allowed to run.

this is exactly the type of thing you would build a facebook application for, though. if the Page uses a tab, when someone clicks the application tab on their profile, facebook requests a page on your server and just puts it in the tab.

so, while you still wouldn't be able to use JS on the tab load, because it was just requested from your server, it could show the last few images on their account.

Yeah this is the best solution I've found for putting dynamic content on a Facebook Fan Page. It requires a custom solution but I'd like to eventually build an app that allows anyone to add a custom/dynamic tab to their fan page.

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