MySpace OpenID Popup spotted in the wild

[jDavid]

Yeah, Chris I did that in a weekend, just to help Max show that it can be
done.
I am sure we will iterate a few times on the UX of the popup flow.  I would
love to be in a room with a ton of OpenID experts and do
some experimentation and some hacking on some potential flows.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, that was my number one concern. Hiding the URL bar is really the
> WRONG way to do it (something the spec MUST address, though I doubt in that
> context we can use the word MUST...).
> To see this in action, visit the test site:
>
> http://8bitmusic.jdavid.net/
>
> The experience with the site is extremely weird: I signed in properly using
> the popup and the login page refreshed instead of providing me some kind of
> "success" message. I thought I'd entered the wrong credentials and hit
> cancel, but then the parent window refreshed and showed my profile, with a
> bunch of my data prepopulated (without asking me for explicit access
> permission):
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/3370317843/
>
> Clearly this leaves something to be desired, but now we at least have an
> alternative to Facebook Connect that we can look at!
>
> Chris
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
>>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/3369029303/
>>
>> Looks really nice! My main feedback is that the browser's address bar
>> needs to be displayed so that users can tell if they're logging into myspace
>> or not.
>>
>> The instructions on MySpace's home page says that you shouldn't login to
>> this popup. :)
>>
>> Always make sure you're visiting the real myspace.com!
>>
>>    1. Check the URL in your browser.
>>    2. Make sure it begins with http://www.myspace.com/
>>    3. If ANY OTHER PAGE asks for your info, DON'T LOG IN!
>>
>>
>>
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