openid implementation advice

Chris Messina chris.messina at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 03:18:23 UTC 2009


On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk>wrote:

> Chris Messina wrote:
>
>> You mentioned user testing. I'm surprised that an act initiated by a user
>> would cause them to instinctively close the popup.
>>
>>
> It's a popular trick in these days of popup blockers to trigger popup ads
> as a side-effect of an affirmative user action, thus bypassing the popup
> blocker.


I'm certainly aware of that trick -- but if we're talking about the RP
offering a "sign in" link which takes them to the sign up page but ALSO pops
an ad, that's insane (though not beyond most soulless advertising types).

Still, this suggests that a popup *button* might help a user realize or
associate it with a popup flow whereas a simple text link might cause the
knee-jerk window closing response.
Will need to be tested, I suppose.

Chris


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