[OpenID] Finally the Shit has hit the fan!

[Santosh Rajan]

Hehehe! i appreciate all the hard work you have done, my apologise for
laughing!

How many more Idiots shall we hire to get this forward any more?




On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Steven Livingstone-Perez <
weblivz at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Henry - Yeah - having played with FOAF+SSL it is nice, albeit a bit of
> work is needed at the moment. I think for that bit to get easier we either
> need really good installers or, ideally, support by the browsers to make
> the
> cert bits a no brainer.
>
> It is certainly the closest I have seen to OpenID just working in the
> browser.
>
> /steven
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hjs at bblfish.net [mailto:hjs at bblfish.net] On Behalf Of Story Henry
> Sent: 07 June 2010 17:51
> To: Steven Livingstone-Perez
> Cc: 'John Panzer'; 'SitG Admin'; openid-general at lists.openid.net;
> openid-specs at lists.openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Finally the Shit has hit the fan!
>
>
> On 7 Jun 2010, at 18:42, Steven Livingstone-Perez wrote:
>
> > The idea in principal appeals but a lot seems to be dependent on
> > browser vendor support & OpenID in the browser should really have been
> > (and should still be [1]) a no brainer for the browser vendors - I
> > anticipate the same level of "uptake" by them for this.
>
> It already works in the browser, and has for years. The problem is that
> most
> people here don't want to look at the solution, because of fear of the
> semantic web it seems, or some such (not sure).
>
>  You can see it working in this home made video
>
>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iZPJBpI2Po&feature=player_embedded
>
>  (I welcome people coming up with better videos)
>  The protocol is detailed here:
>
>     http://esw.w3.org/Foaf+ssl
>
>  There are some small browser improvements that could be made, though it
> would not take long to convince some of the browsers vendors to make them.
>
> Henry
>
> >
> >
> > In short, until we can get the browsers to put social as a first class
> > citizen (and look how long universal OpenSearch support in the
> > browsers
> > took) we have a battle.
>
>
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