[OpenID] popup protocol UX? Re: FB Connect, OpenID and UX

Dirk Balfanz balfanz at google.com
Mon Dec 15 23:14:11 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Dirk Balfanz <balfanz at google.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Alexandru Popescu ☀ <
> the.mindstorm.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Peter Watkins <peterw at tux.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:54:50AM -0800, Luke Shepard wrote:
>> >
>> >> I totally agree that identity should eventually be built into browsers
>> and devices. I would love to work on that.
>> >>
>> >> For Facebook Connect, the user's credentials aren't ever entered into
>> an iframe. If the user is not logged into Facebook, then they will get a
>> normal browser popup.
>> >
>>
>> My understanding was that Facebook Connect will use a normal a JS
>> popup for 'trusted' 3rd party sites and a normal browser popup for the
>> general case. Is my understanding wrong?
>>
>
> I noticed that the same 3rd-party site will pop-up either, depending on
> which browser you use, so that can't quite be the rule.
>

Actually, I take that back - within the last week the behavior has
apparently been unified to always pop up a browser window.

Dirk.


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> Dirk.
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>> ./alex
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>> .w( the_mindstorm )p.
>>   Alexandru Popescu
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