[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research
Martin Atkins
mart at degeneration.co.uk
Tue Oct 14 22:51:04 UTC 2008
Johannes Ernst wrote:
>
> What about -- instead of "merely" figuring out how to use e-mail
> addresses for OpenID and friends -- we treated an e-mail address as a
> form of HTTP address all across the web?
>
> This means: all e-mail addresses become REST-ful. E.g. you can type them
> into your browser and, at the minimum, they support a redirect to the
> "real" page.
>
Aside from the need to get browsers to implement it -- which is a
political problem rather than a technical one -- I don't see how this
use case is different to any other email-to-URL mapping use-case.
Can you elaborate?
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