Google+ Sign-In: Page Level Configuration
On Monday the Google+ Javascript SDK team announced the release of a number of enhancements to the sign-in SDK on the web. These are all things that have either been directly requested by developers, or were created in response to something that developers have asked for, but I wanted to go into a bit more depth on one of the more subtle, but also very useful, changes. The feature is the combination of the page level configuration and the dynamic sign in callback. This simplify managing configuration for a page, makes managing sign-in state easier, and generally provide a much better feel for the user. Page Level Config The biggest change is moving configuration information from either HTML data- attributes or Javascript options to meta data on the page itself. This means that you won’t run into a problem of having one button configured with scopes A and B, but another with just A (which can lead to confusing situations), or miss out some app activity types. The configuration