Login dialog strawman based on IIW discussion

[Chris Messina]

I wonder if this affordence should be dictated by the adoption or
demand of the community.

We'd have to see data on how many Ma.gnolia users actually have an
i-name account... but I imagine that, compared with LiveJournal OpenID
users, i-name users are probably in the minority.

To that point, I actually think that Ma.gnolia's "http:// hint" is a
good one -- that helps to indicate what kind of data is expected. In
some ways, it's too bad that there's a divergence of expected inputs
in OpenID 2.0, since we can no longer take for granted a single
protocol format. This is especially problematic given the change in
behavior OpenID represents -- moving away from the familiar email
addresses or usernames and moving to the OpenID iDP URL/i-names box.

Anyway, I think that this piece is something to be clarified on the
wiki, but should be up to the individual provider, based on their
audience. I mean, it's certainly not something we can universally
dictate -- even getting the OpenID mark in the input box is something
that not everyone will or can abide by (think of Flash forms, mobile
CSS, etc).

Anyway, I've started some documentation of this information here:

http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/OpenID_Login_Box

Please feel free to edit/add/massage.

Chris


On 12/11/06, Brad Topliff <brad.topliff at ootao.com> wrote:
> One difference between two examples of OpenID login (ClaimID and Ma.gnolia)
> that probably should be explicitly addressed is the prefill that Ma.gnolia
> does with "http://".  Though I-names work seemlessly on this site, i-names
> users have to go through the added task of selecting and deleting this
> string.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: user-experience-bounces at openid.net [mailto:user-experience-
> > bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Terrell Russell
> > Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 6:56 PM
> > To: OpenID user experience
> > Subject: Re: Login dialog strawman based on IIW discussion
> >
> > Mike Ozburn wrote:
> > > For what it is worth, ma.gnolia has done a pretty neat implementation of
> > > OpenID.
> > >
> > > You can login with your OpenID even before setting up an account and
> > > they associate it with a username you create in their system.
> > >
> >
> > As well, we do this at http://claimID.com
> >
> > (We are currently using javascript for our login box "OpenID swap-out")
> >
> > A new visitor can "login" with an OpenID - and if we have not seen it
> > before (defined as: it has not previously been added to an existing
> > claimID account) they are invited to create a non-name-colliding account
> > at claimID (at a modified /register page) and their newly-verified
> > OpenID will be automatically added to the list of OpenIDs in their
> > account.
> >
> > Once logged in - the user can add/delete to their list of OpenIDs
> > associated with their account.  They cannot delete the one they are
> > currently "logged-in" as, to avoid a "limbo" state for their account.
> >
> > Once there is a list of OpenIDs in that account - the user can login
> > with *any* of those OpenIDs and be directed to their account.
> >
> >
> > Please try it out if you have not seen it before.  I believe we were the
> > first system to allow multiple OpenIDs in this way and would very much
> > like to stay at the fore of good technique.
> >
> > Thank you Johannes for those mockups.  Very clean.
> >
> >
> > Terrell
> > http://claimID.com
> > http://claimID.com/terrell
> >
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