Despite being pretty against implementing plugins onto my sites, I have decided to use the Comments Plugin on one of my pages. The plugin works fine, however, there seems to be a bug whereby the height of the iframe does not change in certain circumstances.
- If I add a comment and then remove it, the height does not resize back down to fit the content tightly.
- Occasionally, I load the page and the iframe is huge. This is rare and I find it very hard to recreate so I am not actually sure what the cause is but anyway.
- There seems to be unpredictable padding at the bottom of the iframe.
I am aware that this is a problem with the plugin, not with my code but I just wanted to know if anyone else had experienced it and if they knew of a fix?
What is the fastest and best way of implementing the plugin? i.e. FBML or iframe?
I have reported the aforementioned bug to Facebook and they have recognized that it does exist and claim that it is being looked into. However, this was over 2-3 months ago so I am not holding my breath
If it’s a bug, then it’s a bug (and to get facebook to admit to bugs is not easy). So I’d say hang tight until they fix it. I really don’t think there’s much you can do about it …
…other than remove it from the DOM and re-add it to the DOM when it does break.
Or give the website user a “fix it” button that fires off the js to remove it from the DOM and re-add it back.