[step2] A library for OpenID via popup

Tue Feb 10 04:25:28 UTC 2009

The Working Group has been proposed here:
http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID-Popup

Chris

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>>
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