MySpace OpenID Popup spotted in the wild

[Chris Messina]

Totally — I realize it's just a start. Gives us something to look at though!
Chris

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:26 PM, jDavid <jdavid.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
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