Auth flows for web widgets?

[George Fletcher]

I've actually had very good success convincing product owners of web 
properties and services to use a popup ui flow (just not flippable 
widgets:). So I'm very excited about the industry adopting this UX flow. 
Looking forward to the output of the WG.

Thanks,
George

Allen Tom wrote:
> We're in the process of forming an UI Work Group. I expect that once 
> the WG is formed, we'll very quickly release an implementor's spec 
> that will support OpenID auth in a popup window, similar to Facebook 
> Connect.
>
> Allen
>
>
> http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID-User-Interface-Work-Group-Proposal
>
> Allen
>
>
> Ben Clemens wrote:
>> um, any more details please? :)
>>
>>
>> On 3/17/09 1:54 PM, "Allen Tom" <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I'm very confident that we'll see a greatly improved (and less clunky)
>>> popup auth flows for OpenID and for OAuth pretty soon. The overall flow
>>> will be similar to the iGoogle Gadget demo, however future versions of
>>> this flow will probably have much smaller and more streamlined content
>>> within the popup.
>>>
>>> Stay tuned!
>>> Allen
>>>
>>>
>>> George Fletcher wrote:
>>>     
>>>> To me, this feels a little clunky, but I don't see any alternatives
>>>> that don't get back to the "password anti-pattern". Just not sure how
>>>> to convince the product teams that this UI flow is a "good thing" :)
>>>>
>>>>       
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