[step2] A library for OpenID via popup

Breno de Medeiros breno at google.com
Tue Feb 10 04:23:39 UTC 2009


There is an effort (proposal for formation of a working group) where we
would enable the RP to discover that the OP supports popup and then the OP
would re-size the window in that fashion.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Darren Bounds <darren at cliqset.com> wrote:

> Nice.
>
> Has there been any discussion around creating OP guidelines to support
> interfaces like this? If the OP is aware of the pop-up it could re-size the
> window according to its own interface dimensions from page to page,
> similarly to FB Connect. That would be slick.
>
> Darren
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So, Michael Richardson actually put together his own demo (very similar to
>> yours!) providing an example of this alternative flow:
>> http://madstreams.com/
>>
>> This site is actually going to be our demo for Activity Streams, but we're
>> using it for a number of things and it is VERY RAW AND UGLY SO PLEASE DON'T
>> THINK THAT THIS IS HOW IT WILL END UP AFTER A DESIGNER TOUCHES AND LOVINGLY
>> CARESSES THE INTERFACE.
>>
>> That said, it does provide an example of the flow I was just talking about
>> (I hadn't realized that it was more or less ready to show).
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> I would love to integrate this with any and all  OpenID provider
>>> selection schemes, yes!
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Breno, this is great!
>>>> Quick question: did you consider putting the OpenID Provider selection
>>>> into the popup? Obviously this is great if you either know the provider or
>>>> want to support certain providers, but what if that part was deferred to the
>>>> popup?
>>>>
>>>> i.e. click "I want to login" --> popup --> choose your provider -->
>>>> proceed through OpenID flow --> onSuccess --> return to opener
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Breno <breno.demedeiros at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We have checked in a javascript library that can be used for opening
>>>>> OpenID popups at the RP. It is available at
>>>>> http://step2.googlecode.com
>>>>>
>>>>> A working demo hosted on Amazon's EC2 is at
>>>>> http://www.puffypoodles.com/popup
>>>>> ; it is a single instance, so the QoS is not to be trusted!
>>>>>
>>>>> Volunteer testers appreciated!
>>>>>
>>>>> Notes:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. It does not use any special parameters to indicate to the OP that
>>>>> it is using a popup window, because, well, such standard does not
>>>>> exist (yet!)
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. There is some documentation in the code itself, but I plan to add
>>>>> more in a few days, including some wiki pages.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. The code is currently in the 'example-consumer' directory. We will
>>>>> eventually move it to the consumer directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. Suggestions for improvements are welcome. If you find bugs, please
>>>>> file them and assign them to me.
>>>>>
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