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Re:Four Facebook Alternative Alternatives by michaelchisari on Thursday November 25, 2010 @04:04PM (#1940997)
Actually, Appleseed's framework abstracts out the user-facing code into a "foundation", which can be removed and replaced (and even inherited) without changing any of the underlying server-side logic.

So there's no reason I couldn't implement a radically different UI like this without changing any of the base code. Theoretically, you would even be able to switch between the UI's with a simple button.

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Facebook-Facelift-Home-Profil...

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Re:Four Facebook Alternative Alternatives by joe_the_user on Thursday November 25, 2010 @04:19PM (#1941026)
How does the foundation talk to the server?

Do you have to use php?

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Re:Four Facebook Alternative Alternatives by michaelchisari on Thursday November 25, 2010 @04:37PM (#1941063)
If you wanted to build a new foundation, you'd do it in client-side JavaScript. You communicate with the server through a REST API.
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Re:Four Facebook Alternative Alternatives by joe_the_user on Thursday November 25, 2010 @05:47PM (#1941173)
Have a link describing the REST API?
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Re:Four Facebook Alternative Alternatives by michaelchisari on Thursday November 25, 2010 @11:48PM (#1941655)
Not yet, actually, it's still in flux, and documentation is sparse to non-existant. The next few releases will be ironing out a lot of the implementation, and I'm going to prioritize a guide for how to get started with it.
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