Wow. First off, it's an honour for me to have THE Paul Irish even reading my blog ;)

Thanks a lot for your recommendations, Paul. I think that they might really help to optimize the snippets and I look forward to including them in a future updated version of this list.

Cheers

No problem at all!. I hope that these help in some small way towards your path to becoming a jQuery Master some day :)

Hello Mike. It's really great getting to hear that other coders found this list useful. I hope the snippets come in handy with your projects! :)

No problem! I'm glad you liked it

Thanks. I'm really happy to hear that you liked the article (and are following! ) : )

Thank you!

It depends on what you're trying to do. If you're only interested in the thumbnail (and not a higher res version) you should just be able to load in the URL to their friend profile directly and use regular expressions to extract the URL to their friend image. That said, it might just be easier for you to try doing this via the Facebook API as they have methods for grabbing friend images fairly painlessly.

I've been personally using the Official API for all Facebook related things for a while now, but if you're interested in some alternative code for achieving this via CURL, here's a nice little snippet from Snipplr http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-faceb...

If you scroll up to the dashboard you'll see the Subscribe button there :)

To alter the title animation, change the below lines to change the position of the text from a base/bottom position to where you want the final animation to end.

$(’.title’).animate({
marginLeft:’-42px’,
marginTop:’90px’},
d.speedTitle).css({’z-index’:'10′,’position’:'absolute’,'float’:'left’})}}}