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I think the auto-detection stuff is worth looking at but others I've
talked to say "meh". Certainly there's a potential creepiness issue;
on the other hand, I already use the color of visited links to good
effect when trying to re-create the path I take via Google searches
(the ones I clicked on before stand out). Perhaps there's an equally
non-creepy method of highlighting the IDP the user is most likely to
want to pick. If done via a standard JS library, one could also slide
i client side support for IDP configuration via things like toolbars
whenever available...<br>
<br>
Luke Shepard wrote:
<blockquote cite="midC5197927.13C9D%25lshepard@facebook.com" type="cite">
<title>Re: [OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience
research</title>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Just wanted to chime in with a link to Niall
Kennedy’s research into auto-detection of likely providers:<br>
<a
href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/02/browser-history-sniff.html#openid-example">http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/02/browser-history-sniff.html#openid-example</a><br>
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In his scenario, the browser does some scanning in JS to determine
likely candidates. This is a promising solution to the problem of
“which providers does this user have” (although potentially creepy).<br>
<br>
Also, if that is too creepy, some identity providers may provide a way
to auto-detect whether the user is an active user of the site. For
instance, the Facebook APIs allow you to check (via JS) whether the
user is currently logged-in (but without actually getting their
identifier or any information beyond that). OpenID currently allows the
remote site to check if the user is logged in AND has authorized the
website (via checkid_immediate), although perhaps it could be adapted
to check for simple membership. <br>
<br>
On 10/13/08 10:08 PM, "SitG Admin" <<a
href="sysadmin@shadowsinthegarden.com">sysadmin@shadowsinthegarden.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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</span></font>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">>but still include buttons for a very
small number of IDPs under the login box.<br>
<br>
>(2) contain the full name of the E-mail provider (not just logo),<br>
>and (3) the set of buttons is no wider then the login box. That<br>
>generally means a max of 2 buttons for a regular username/password<br>
>login box<br>
<br>
Quick thought - could we use an animated GIF to "Have another IDP?"<br>
and rotating between a large set of others? User would probably<br>
expect to click on it and select whatever it was displaying when they<br>
clicked on it, leading to frustration as they try to target a smaller<br>
window of opportunity the faster these options rotate (and the more<br>
secondary IDP's in it, the faster it would need to rotate to<br>
realistically show users all those options), and while client-side<br>
scripting might be able to achieve this, I was thinking more a link<br>
to another "Select different IDP page." - though perhaps instead of<br>
an animated GIF there might be a Flash movie with built-in<br>
navigation? But then it's less compatible :(<br>
<br>
Never mind, it was just a quick thought.<br>
<br>
-Shade<br>
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