[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

[Breno de Medeiros]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Steven Livingstone-Perez
<weblivz at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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> Perhaps someone can enlighten me?

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> 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
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>>> 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.
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk>
> wrote:
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> Deron Meranda wrote:
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>> I'm not really sure of the whole point to the proposal anyway; isn't that
>> what the HTTP Accept-Language header is for?
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> 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.
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> 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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