[OpenID] Finally the Shit has hit the fan!

[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

Hi Henry - Yeah - having played with FOAF+SSL it is nice, albeit a bit of
work is needed at the moment. I think for that bit to get easier we either
need really good installers or, ideally, support by the browsers to make the
cert bits a no brainer.

It is certainly the closest I have seen to OpenID just working in the
browser.

/steven

-----Original Message-----
From: hjs at bblfish.net [mailto:hjs at bblfish.net] On Behalf Of Story Henry
Sent: 07 June 2010 17:51
To: Steven Livingstone-Perez
Cc: 'John Panzer'; 'SitG Admin'; openid-general at lists.openid.net;
openid-specs at lists.openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Finally the Shit has hit the fan!


On 7 Jun 2010, at 18:42, Steven Livingstone-Perez wrote:

> The idea in principal appeals but a lot seems to be dependent on 
> browser vendor support & OpenID in the browser should really have been 
> (and should still be [1]) a no brainer for the browser vendors - I 
> anticipate the same level of "uptake" by them for this.

It already works in the browser, and has for years. The problem is that most
people here don't want to look at the solution, because of fear of the
semantic web it seems, or some such (not sure). 

  You can see it working in this home made video

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iZPJBpI2Po&feature=player_embedded

  (I welcome people coming up with better videos)
  The protocol is detailed here:

     http://esw.w3.org/Foaf+ssl

  There are some small browser improvements that could be made, though it
would not take long to convince some of the browsers vendors to make them.

Henry

> 
> 
> In short, until we can get the browsers to put social as a first class 
> citizen (and look how long universal OpenSearch support in the 
> browsers
> took) we have a battle.