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Re:Logins without logins. by elliottkember on Monday September 03, 2012 @12:49PM (#4470977)
Oh, wow - I don't like this at all. Requiring me to have my phone on me to log in? Making me select my name from a list to log in? Then prompting me with a new form? These solutions seem awful and unintuitive to me.

Even worse, how am I going to explain this login system to my parents, or even my non-technical friends?

It's like OpenID login a while back. "Enter a URL to log in" was wasn't quite as easy to understand as developers thought.

This needs to be baked-in to the browser. Unfortunately, because we have loads of different browser vendors, I don't think we'll ever see a decent solution.

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Re:Logins without logins. by nodata on Monday September 03, 2012 @04:21PM (#4471687)
Better: https://login.persona.org/
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Re:Logins without logins. by kordless on Monday September 03, 2012 @05:18PM (#4471876)
Better in that it requires me to use Mozilla/Firefox? I think not.
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Re:Logins without logins. by __david__ on Monday September 03, 2012 @05:25PM (#4471901)
It does not require Firefox. I just built it into an app as an alternative to Facebook logins and it works just fine from any browser out there.
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Re:Logins without logins. by user-id on Monday September 03, 2012 @05:53PM (#4471972)
OK, so they've changed BrowserID to Mozilla Persona. How reassuring, I don't recall being notified of such a change.
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Re:Logins without logins. by alexchamberlain on Monday September 03, 2012 @01:26PM (#4471100)
They all agree on HTTP...

We'll get one in time; it just won't be as quick as we would like.

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Re:Logins without logins. by callahad on Monday September 03, 2012 @03:39PM (#4471539)
Mike Hanson's article, "LIFDing the web" [0] outlines a really interesting way to prototype and introduce new browser features. Highly recommended.

[0]: http://www.open-mike.org/entry/lifding-the-web

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