[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

Still struggling to understand why a language hint at the OP based on the
provided OpenID wouldn't work. I mean, if you registered and set a language
when doing so then why not use that even when NOT logged in? Only the OP
needs to know right?

 

Perhaps someone can enlighten me?

 

From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Eric Sachs
Sent: 29 October 2008 19:29
To: Martin Atkins
Cc: OpenID List
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

 

>> However, I have before raised the concern that if I'm muddling my way
through a site that's only available in French I'd still rather have my OP
-- that, after all, knows more about me than the RP -- present its UI in
English, my primary language.
That is a question we at Google are considering as well, and we don't know
the answer.  However in the case where the user is not yet logged in to the
OP/IDP, we do think it would be a good idea to use that language hint from
the RP to decide what language to use on the OP/IDP's login screen.  But
even in that case we use a bunch of signals to decide on the language, and
we are going to have to run some experiments to decide how to incorporate
that RP hint into those other signals.

 

 

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk>
wrote:

Deron Meranda wrote:
>
> I'm not really sure of the whole point to the proposal anyway; isn't that
> what the HTTP Accept-Language header is for?

I believe the idea here is to arrange for the OP UI to appear in the
same language as the RP regardless of how the RP determined language.

However, I have before raised the concern that if I'm muddling my way
through a site that's only available in French I'd still rather have my
OP -- that, after all, knows more about me than the RP -- present its UI
in English, my primary language.



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