Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research. Extremely valuable research, conducted with a group of typical Yahoo! users. OpenIDs usability remains bad, and if we don’t get it right soon something centralised like Facebook Connect will take over and the Web will stop being open.
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Right. Usability is very bad, it is a pain for implementors, and having people put a URL in a form every time doesn't really improve things over putting a userid and password in a form.
Why oh why didn't openID take the suggestion from my own mIDm system, to put the identity URL in the browser header, with a dropdown in the browser to switch identities as needed.
And why oh why must the implementations be so ridiculous. don't rebuild the entire authentication system of whatever website is implementing it - provide some simple code to get the login from the browser URL and use existing authentication (just like mIDm).
Sheesh. I hate to see the community get this wrong.
Stephen Downes - 15th October 2008 02:29 - #
Stephen,
Keep an eye on IDIB (Identity in the Browser). It sounds a lot like your mIDm concept.
http://vidoop.com/labs/idib/
-Luke
Luke - 15th October 2008 22:10 - #