[OpenID] FB Connect, OpenID and UX - general Security Services

Christian Scholz / Tao Takashi (SL) tao.takashi at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 16 09:26:42 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
>> And I think the only way to spread adoption is to actually built it
>> directly into the browser, not just as addon. There might also be a
>> trust issue involved as you usually trust your browser vendor more
>> than third party apps.
>>
>
> I believe the plan with the idib ("identity in browser") project was to
> build it as a browser extension first to figure out what OpenID support in
> the browser might look like and once there's a good working extension *then*
> push to get that added as a core browser feature.
>
> That was my understanding, at least.

Sounds like a good plan :-)
The question in the end of course is if it will be adopted by browser
vendors (most importantly IE of course).

-- Christian

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