[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

[Peter Watkins]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:09:05PM +0000, Nate Klingenstein wrote:
> Have you folks written off Cardspace or similar approaches, where the  
> client is smarter and able to mediate discovery, at this point?

ISTM that's what George is advocating -- make the client responsible for
remembering the preference and presenting it when appropriate. Personally
I would not want my browser telling my OP preference to any old web site 
that asked without my confirmation, but most users would probably welcome 
some X-OpenID-* headers making their lives easier. And as an RP admin, I'd 
love to see such headers, to help me tailor my user interface, especially 
my collection of OP-specific buttons.

-Peter

> On 11 Feb 2009, at 19:02, George Fletcher wrote:
> 
> > I like the possibilities of XRD or even configuring a browser with  
> > a specific preference that it could "push" to RPs. It doesn't seem  
> > like it should be that hard for a browser to add a header with the  
> > preference or better, detect that the RP wants the preference and  
> > only send it when needed. Similar to how the Identity in the  
> > Browser flow discovers RP meta-data.