<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Chris Messina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I would love to see Janrain list the percentage of XRI users they've seen across their RPX installations. I bet you it's less than 1% of 1%.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>We need to be careful how we judge this. XRI may be a great feature, but if no one is using it, that doesn't mean it's not important or great. It <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">may</span> mean that it's very poorly offered to users. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Myopenid.com, Google.com, Yahoo.com, ... these large/popular OPs have spent a great deal of time making the UX as smooth as possible when issuing Identifiers. Do they offer XRIs? No. The only services that offer XRIs that I've seen (I've seen just a handful) have <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">crappy</span> interfaces. It's so bad that as a programmer I can barely understand or tolerate them. Let alone the end user. But it doesn't need to be this way. XRIs can be easy to use. And if this was done, and if RPs actually implemented support for them, I think we'd see them used a lot more.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now before you say "then why does it matter if RPs don't implement them because people aren't complaining?" Who do we complain to? RPs don't care because not enough people want them. Well you know what? Almost no one wants OpenID either... not because it's not a killer-awesome technology but because no one's heard of it or knows how to use it. For some reason we're willing to keep marching forward the OpenID mantra but we don't care about XRIs which suffer from similar problems?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm confused and frustrated at the lack of XRI adoption. So there, ... now you have one complainer. :)</div></div>