[OpenID] popup protocol UX? Re: FB Connect, OpenID and UX

[Christian Scholz / Tao Takashi (SL)]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:40 PM, SitG Admin
<sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com> wrote:
>>Flickr users can only sign-in to Flickr using a YahooID. There are
>>no other ways to sign in.
>
> Ahh, understood. Now all I have to do is create a photo service, get
> users, and at some point announce that it's been bought out by Yahoo
> and the user should enter their YahooID to log in.

It's not that easy.. You get redirected to login.yahoo.com which you
can clearly see in the URL bar (no popup btw). There you enter your
yahoo id and your password.
Then you get redirected back to flickr. So it's somewhat like an
OpenID redirect but you don't enter an ID on flickr but only at
login.yahoo.com.

Additionally you see the flickr logo on login.yahoo.com.

-- Christian



> I'm not familiar with Flickr, so I don't know - the user may enter
> just their YahooID, then get redirected to https://login.yahoo.com
> for the password field. I'd just add a password field on my fake
> "Recently acquired by Yahoo!" photo service, though, "Now, for added
> convenience, to YOU, the user!".
>
> -Shade
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