[OpenID] Eating our own dog food

[Chris Messina]

...which doesn't seem that great from an accessibility perspective, though I
understand the motivation.

What's wrong with just linking to the OpenID URL and having that suffice?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com>wrote:

> One way I've balanced the "easy to read" ideal with the "accurate" ideal is
> to use tooltips.  I display the easy-to-read versions in text on the page,
> but if you hover over it, you get the whole long claimed_id.
> --
> Andrew Arnott
> "I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death
> your right to say it." - S. G. Tallentyre
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> +1.
>>
>> Great points... we should definitely be showcasing how "cool" and "useful"
>> OpenID can be — especially in cases like this. Exposing the inner workings
>> (or limitations?) of the technology only works to reinforce people's
>> stereotypes of OpenID — that's it's hard to use, confusing, and ugly (we're
>> Specimen A for proving all those points!).
>>
>> Perhaps this is something that should be listed either on Get Satisfaction
>> and/or UserVoice so we have it captured somewhere more public (sorry, but
>> our mailing list archives are a beast to search and navigate).
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net@
>> netmesh.us> wrote:
>>
>>> I just realize that the membership pages on openid.net show all http
>>> URLs *without* the protocol. E.g the voting page lists the following
>>> candidates:
>>>
>>> mfrons22.wordpress.com
>>> allentom.com
>>> www.google.com/accounts/o…
>>> bkkissel.myopenid.com
>>> daniel.jacobson.myopenid.…
>>> blame.ca
>>> www.google.com/profiles/d…
>>> =!BF81.FD97.C81B.B4E5
>>> openid.jonathancoffman.co…
>>> josephsmarr.com
>>> =!477C.45CF.CAA7.A71
>>> martin.paljak.pri.ee
>>> www.google.com/accounts/o…
>>> otti.clavid.ch
>>>
>>> If we continue to insist that http://XXX and https://XXX are two
>>> different OpenIDs, we should not list them this way. (Personally, I don't,
>>> but that was the majority view every time somebody asked.)
>>>
>>> I also question whether abbreviating OpenIDs is ever a good idea, or
>>> whether printing an i-number instead of something human-comprehensible.
>>>
>>> Also, while we are on the subject, why not make them all clickable, so we
>>> can learn something about the candidates? Remember, this is the original use
>>> case for why http URLs as identifiers as opposed to any other identifier.
>>> And for voting purposes, that makes every sense in the world as all of the
>>> above http OpenIDs would lead to interesting pages about the candidates, if
>>> they were clickable that is. The abbreviated ones aren't even copy-pasteable
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> P.S. This is intended to be a bunch of bug reports against the app, not a
>>> complaint. ;-) Didn't know where the bug tracking system was so I post it
>>> here ;-)
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>>
>>
>>
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