It's a promising direction, but suffers the same issue as the XAuth.org approach, which is that you would always have to visit your provider to register it as a handler BEFORE visiting any site that would invoke, say, an "openid:" protocol.<div>
<br></div><div>This may not be a problem in practice, since most people will probably visit their primary provider(s) at least once during their session, but it does suffer from the cold start problem.</div><div><br></div>
<div>There may also be an issue with using this approach on shared computers, or where the user has several different accounts with the same provider — it would be important to consider how one might select a given account from several hosted with a given provider.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Still, I'd be interested in a seeing a demo because this obviously would be a neat approach in certain contexts.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Odin Omdal Hørthe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:odin.omdal@gmail.com">odin.omdal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hey!<br>
<br>
I didn't see this was posted to the openid-list. It's a possible fix<br>
for the Nascar openid-problem.<br>
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<<a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2010/07/26/registerprotocolhandler-enhancing-the-federated-web/" target="_blank">http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2010/07/26/registerprotocolhandler-enhancing-the-federated-web/</a>><br>
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