[OpenID] Support in Browsers

[Dick Hardt]

Firefox 3.0 had OpenID support on the roadmap, but to date nothing  
has been committed to the repository.

At Sxip we built Sxipper[1] which provides a consistent user  
experience between OpenID and existing websites. When a user  
navigates to a login page, an overlay is presented that allows them  
to choose which account to login with.

-- Dick

[1] http://www.sxipper.com

On 16-Oct-07, at 2:06 AM, Paul Tanner wrote:

> 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
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