[OpenID] Support in Browsers

[Paul Tanner]

I have heard tell - probably from one of Simon's slides - of direct 
support for OpenID in browsers such as the next major release of 
Firefox.  I am also aware of Verisign's plugin.

Can anyone comment more concretely as to who is planning what in the 
browser world?

I think usability remains a barrier to OpenID proliferation and 
direct browser support could be part of the answer.  My reason for 
thinking this goes back to basic authentication which mostly conforms 
to a model that people are quite used to.  I notice that when it's 
not used there are so many ways to do it with web pages that users 
can get confused.  This is why I think that a consistent way of 
prompting for OpenID would be a great help, even if not universally 
adopted.  It would be better still if this allowed for the dual login 
scenario that tends to be necessary when introducing OpenID to a site 
that already has a community of username/password users.

Paul