On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:34 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 20:12 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Callum Lerwick wrote: > >> > Google has it right guys, the standard sucks: > >> > > >> > http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/google-doesnt-use-openid/ > >> > >> No, Google is just showing that they have enough monopoly power to dictate > >> whatever proprietary "standard" they feel like. They're really the next M$. > >> They cannot be trusted. They're only "friendly" towards Free Software > >> insofar as it gives them a lot of software to parasite for proprietary web > >> apps at no cost. Just ask yourself why the Affero GPL is banned on Google > > > > That doesn't make them wrong about OpenID's UI sucking. > > > Does open ID dictate a user interface? Yes. Current UI is users have to copy and paste long obscure meaningless URLs to every site they want to log in to. And as I read up on OpenID, I learn how fundamentally flawed it is. Users don't care about URLs. They don't understand them. What they understand is their *email address*. This could be hacked around maintaining the existing OpenID structure by coming up with some standard way to map emails addresses to OpenID URLs. So if I enter whosit@xxxxxxxxxxx, somehow whatsit.com is queried to discover the URL for user "whosit". This could happen with DNS or HTTP or something...
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