[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research
SitG Admin
sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Tue Oct 14 06:47:50 UTC 2008
>> Nothing about including email identifiers as valid OpenID identifiers
>> requires you that you use email as your primary identifier. It simply
>> enables the use of email addresses for signing in to services. ...
>
>So if a login box solicits something called "Email address",
>what would you expect a student to supply in the scenario Nate
>mentioned?
I think Chris meant inclusion as acceptance, not explicitly
soliciting E-mail identifiers *instead of* URL identifiers. If the
user gets confused and enters their E-mail address instead of a URL,
we should be able to at least make a *token* attempt at translating
that into a URL.
-Shade
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