[OpenID] Eating our own dog food

[Andrew Arnott]

For a list like the one Johannes gave, that makes sense.  From a "Welcome, *
claimed_id!*" scenario, the tooltip makes more sense to me, since I don't
want to make the user's *own* OpenID a link since it doesn't buy the user
much if anything.  But I could go either way.
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:

> ...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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