Mozilla in the early days demoed a shiny proof of concept of how good the user experience could be with native support in the browser. [1] They never shipped th

Mozilla in the early days demoed a shiny proof of concept of how good the user experience could be with native support in the browser. [1] They never shipped this, so there was no carrot for websites to implement BrowserID/Persona, and websites struggled with the bad UX of the fallback. I don't know why they seem surprised that websites didn't take the plunge before Firefox did. [1] http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/firefox-account-manager.jpg http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/firefo...