Thanks Martin for pointing to this issue again. The editors at <a href="http://openiddirectory.com">http://openiddirectory.com</a> (OIDD) really have to face a lot of "implementations in the wild" these days. And more than once we stretch our own principles in favor of having one more site supporting OpenID to join the community.
<br><br>I agree on the basics you´ve been putting on the wiki, but I think the implementation of OpenID goes hand in hand with the user interface. E.g. on a lot of implementations on wordpress blogs you are redirected to the dashboard after login and see a lot of information that should be private to the admin.
<br><br>Another example: A lot of wikis treat OpenID users as second class citizens by almost hiding the login screen and giving it a different URL from the standard login form. Sometimes you have to click through 3 pages to find the OpenID login.
<br><br>Other ones are confusing the user by presenting him screens with OpenID login, name, email and comment field. This is not making clear that you can use EITHER OpenID OR email / name. Sadly this is standard on wordpress blogs until now (Verselogic plugin). It even gets more worse if comments are moderated and you don´t get a hint that something happened after hitting the submit button. An inexperienced user will wonder if he has only logged in now and has to write his comment again. Different implementations are causing a lot of confusion out there.
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<br>Even if this better belongs to the User Experience mailinglist I´m wondering if we can have some basic principles for the UI on this wikipage to. We would be more than glad if we could reference RPs to this page when they are not conform with at least the basic best practices and otherwise reject their submission to the OIDD.
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