Re:Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live
by wmf on Friday December 16, 2011 @10:51PM
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If the browser can remember a BrowserID token, it could also remember an OpenID URL. If the browser can have chrome that triggers a BrowserID login, it could have chrome that triggers an OpenID (3.0) login and does all the redirects behind the scenes. I think with OpenID+OAuth the RP can get an email address.
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Re:Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live
by Groxx on Saturday December 17, 2011 @01:04AM
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Thank God someone else sees it.
There is no reason that your browser can remember a unique username and password for every site you wish, but not a single OpenID url. Or that it can fill in username and passwords across wildly-varying-markup sites, but not in the much-more-frequently-identical OpenID fields. At absolute worst, the OpenID experience can be 100% identical to the Username/Password experience, but no browser I've seen has even done this trivial implementation, much less a more seamless one.