On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 17:44 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> As for using email addresses as OpenIDs, this is something the OpenID >> >> community is talking about quite a bit right now; Google included. >> > >> > Having to type in a domain or an email address is NOT an improvement >> >> Having a single account over multiple account is an improvement. >> >> > This should require NO typing. The user should see no URLs, no domains, >> >> Why not? >> >> > no emails, they should see nothing but a button to click. >> >> Why not? This is trying to solve the problem of multiple accounts not >> laziness. Eventually I'm sure there will be browser extensions to auto >> enter your open id info if you can't bare to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. > > Does ease of use mean anything to you? Think about browser devices that > don't have keyboards. > > You're trying to solve a much smaller problem than me. How is entering > your email everywhere an improvement over just using the same password > on every site? All you've done is made it so you enter one thing instead > of two. That's *it*. (Does OpenID even remove the need to go through an > email validation loop on every single site? Since it completely avoids > the entire notion of email, I don't think it does...) Are we still talking about making being a bug filer across multiple projects easier? -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
