[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

OK, that's one method of using OpenID that you can't use the OP's help in
this way. Many others you could, I'd suggest (since we're talking about
various solutions to the problem anyway).

-----Original Message-----
From: Breno de Medeiros [mailto:breno at google.com] 
Sent: 29 October 2008 20:22
To: Steven Livingstone-Perez
Cc: Eric Sachs; Martin Atkins; OpenID List
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

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?
>
>
>
> Perhaps someone can enlighten me?

identifier_select

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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:
>
> 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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