Why FB.getLoginStatus doesn't work in IE7?

Question

I am using FB.getLoginStatus for an application in Facebook. This works fine in all the browsers, including IE8. But it doesn\'t work for IE7. My code is:

Answer 1

According to the documentation at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/fb.init/, the proper solution is to create a file on your web server (for instance channel.html) containing just:

And then specifying the absolute URL to your channel.html in your init options:

For convenience in deployment, I use the following to calculate my channelUrl.

 var curLoc = window.location;
 curLoc.protocol + "//" + curLoc.hostname + ":" + curLoc.port + "/channel.html"