[step2] Re: OpenID UI Extension - Draft 0.1 (formerly known as the Popup Extension)

[Breno]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Brian Ellin <brian at janrain.com> wrote:

> Allen, this extension draft looks great!
>
> A comment: after reading through the spec, it wasn't entirely clear to me
> that this extension is solely for providing UI hints to the OP.  For
> example, as an RP it looks like I should be able to use the discovery piece
> to determine whether or not to open up a popup window on the fly, which
> isn't really possible.  Some wording to indicate that the extension is just
> for providing hints to the OP would be helpful.  Or perhaps a rename of the
> extension to something like "OpenID Provider UI Hint Extension."
>
> Also, how are RPs supposed to determine that they should open the popup for
> a given provider?  Is it assumed that an RP implementing a popup based UI
> will open the popup for all OPs?


The draft specifies how an RP can discover that the OP supports popup. OPs
that support popup must include a special <Type> URL in their XRD documents.


>
>
> Cheers,
> Brian Ellin
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Allen. This sounds like a good compromise between extensibility
>> and simplicity.
>>
>> One concern in terms of writing is that it may not clear that you can use
>> either feature independently or in combination (the language preference and
>> the window style), which I know is your intention. But I am not sure if a
>> different factoring of the text where both features are shown as optional
>> will contribute to better understanding or complicate things.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Here's the link to the draft:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openid.net/f/openid_ui_extension_draft01.html
>>>
>>> Allen
>>>
>>> Allen Tom wrote:
>>> > Hi All,
>>> >
>>> > Based on feedback from Draft 0 of the Popup Extension, we''ve revised
>>> > the draft to include the user's language preference, and renamed it the
>>> > UI Extension.
>>> >
>>> > The UI Extension defines an OpenID Authentication UI Mode called
>>> "popup"
>>> > which is intended to run inside a 450x500 popup window. OPs MAY resize
>>> > the popup window if needed, but resizing the window is discouraged (at
>>> > least in the normal cases)  in order to keep the UI consistent.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The UI Extension also defines a new parameter called openid.ui.lang
>>> > which is allows the RP to pass the OP a hint about the user's preferred
>>> > language. The format of the value is identical to AX's language
>>> > preference attribute.
>>> >
>>> > Comments and feedback are welcomed and appreciated,
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > Allen
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
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