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I like the progressive enhancement aspects of this solution, but I'd
still rather see passive markup on the part of the web site
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bob.example.com/bob">http://bob.example.com/bob</a>). It seems like this is what host-meta is
designed for. The host-meta can define OStatus endpoints for posting
data, or defining bob's OStatus "handle" that Alice's "browser" can
use. I realize this approach puts more of the identity and federation
smarts in the user's "client" rather than in the web, but I still see
the "client" as the best option for a consumer friendly seamless
experience.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
George<br>
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On 7/31/10 11:42 AM, Chris Messina wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTi=7aTBH=v1K3-0JHCR=yk3NZAitNzpe7b_i25G1@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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.
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>Still, I'd be interested in a seeing a demo because this
obviously would be a neat approach in certain contexts.</div>
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<div>Chris<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Odin Omdal
Hørthe <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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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