[Openid-specs-native-apps] Fwd: Web Browser news from WWDC

[Paul Madsen]

John, can you expand on

'However it seems like we will be able to do significantly more with the 
browser than we had been thinking.'

As I see it, the new feature doesn't enable anything *more* other than a 
better UX on iOS? True?

Paul

On 6/12/15 4:38 PM, John Bradley wrote:
> Have a look at 23min into this video from ADC.
>
> https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/?id=504
>
> This is a significant development.
>
> In talking to others from Google yesterday and today, they have 
> introduced similar functionality in Android rolling out in 
> approximately the same timeframe, and backwards compatible with 
> current versions of Android.
>
> Being able to invoke a web tab without an app flip is a significant 
> change, potentially making the TA in the browser that we have talked 
> about the preferred option on iOS.
>
> People should look at the ACDC draft 
> https://bitbucket.org/openid/napps/wiki/Home.
>
> It may be that NAPPS for enterprise is OAuth using a tab plus PKCE and 
> some additional app verification logic + fido api in the browser.
> For SasS we may be able to use OAuth + ACDC and discovery in a tab.
>
> It looks like the tab will have access to device certificates solving 
> some peoples issues around that.
>
> We should also be able to do accountchooser.com 
> <http://accountchooser.com> in the browser tab to perform account 
> discovery.
>
> Now that the changes have landed on iOS and Android we should be good 
> to do testing in the late summer fall.
>
> Please start the discussion on the list.
>
> I recognize that some people will still have use cases for native 
> token agents, so I am not proposing completely eliminating that yet.
>
> However it seems like we will be able to do significantly more with 
> the browser than we had been thinking.
>
> Regards
> John B.
>
>
>
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