How to send a Facebook notification through their API

Question

I asked this on the Facebook Developers Forum with no responses.. How do I send notifications to users so they show up in the Notifications globe icon tab on the top left o

Answer 1

I know this is an old post - but someone might stumble on it as I did, and find it useful: The notifications area in FB is updated by sending Requests which can be sent by using FB dialogs. The JS SDK provides the FB.ui() method to show dialogs for posting to stream, or sending a request.

More Info on FB: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.ui/