Popup flow

[Chris Messina]

Hi Jonathan,
Yes, the intention is for the "Popup Experience" to become something of a de
facto standard for OpenID, largely influenced by the experience of Facebook
Connect.

Allen Tom has been leading this work, producing an interface extension:

http://wiki.openid.net/f/openid_ui_extension_draft01.html

Feedback is welcome.

Chris

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Jonathan Coffman <
jonathan.coffman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all, as my developers work on our OpenID implementation (private
> OP/white-listed RP's for the time being) I'm going through various options
> for the user's authentication flow.
>
> In seeing Yahoo's announcement of their pop-up flow, and Google's previous
> migration -- is this quickly becoming the defacto standard?
>
> Some of my stakeholders are asking for a templated/co-branded experience so
> that users, when redirected, see a logo, etc from the RP on the
> sign-up/log-in page for our OP. Obviously, that's not too difficult to do
> but I feel like the whole argument might be overcome with a simplified OP
> design by utilizing the popup draft spec.
>
> Any strong opinions either way?
>
> -Jonathan Coffman
> Product Manager, Social Media
> http://pbs.org
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