[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

[John Panzer]

I think the auto-detection stuff is worth looking at but others I've 
talked to say "meh".  Certainly there's a potential creepiness issue; on 
the other hand, I already use the color of visited links to good effect 
when trying to re-create the path I take via Google searches (the ones I 
clicked on before stand out).  Perhaps there's an equally non-creepy 
method of highlighting the IDP the user is most likely to want to pick.  
If done via a standard JS library, one could also slide i client side 
support for IDP configuration via things like toolbars whenever available...

Luke Shepard wrote:
> Just wanted to chime in with a link to Niall Kennedy's research into 
> auto-detection of likely providers:
> http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/02/browser-history-sniff.html#openid-example
>
> In his scenario, the browser does some scanning in JS to determine 
> likely candidates. This is a promising solution to the problem of 
> "which providers does this user have" (although potentially creepy).
>
> Also, if that is too creepy, some identity providers may provide a way 
> to auto-detect whether the user is an active user of the site. For 
> instance, the Facebook APIs allow you to check (via JS) whether the 
> user is currently logged-in (but without actually getting their 
> identifier or any information beyond that). OpenID currently allows 
> the remote site to check if the user is logged in AND has authorized 
> the website (via checkid_immediate), although perhaps it could be 
> adapted to check for simple membership.
>  
> On 10/13/08 10:08 PM, "SitG Admin" <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     >but still include buttons for a very small number of IDPs under
>     the login box.
>
>     >(2) contain the full name of the E-mail provider (not just logo),
>     >and (3) the set of buttons is no wider then the login box.  That
>     >generally means a max of 2 buttons for a regular username/password
>     >login box
>
>     Quick thought - could we use an animated GIF to "Have another IDP?"
>     and rotating between a large set of others? User would probably
>     expect to click on it and select whatever it was displaying when they
>     clicked on it, leading to frustration as they try to target a smaller
>     window of opportunity the faster these options rotate (and the more
>     secondary IDP's in it, the faster it would need to rotate to
>     realistically show users all those options), and while client-side
>     scripting might be able to achieve this, I was thinking more a link
>     to another "Select different IDP page." - though perhaps instead of
>     an animated GIF there might be a Flash movie with built-in
>     navigation? But then it's less compatible :(
>
>     Never mind, it was just a quick thought.
>
>     -Shade
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