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I wish you guys would see sense. OpenID is a geeks dream; conceptually, it's very difficult for normal people to grasp. WHY did open Id have to use a URL? What
by maxklein 18y ago
I wish you guys would see sense. OpenID is a geeks dream; conceptually, it's very difficult for normal people to grasp.
WHY did open Id have to use a URL? What is wrong with me typing maximusklein@gmail.com into my 'openid' field, and then it authenticates at gmail.com using the unique identifier maximusklein?
What's the big difference? One is complicated as hell conceptually, and the other is very easy to understand.
- simonw 18y agoThe OpenID community is working on exactly that: http://eaut.org/ http://eaut.org/
- ricree 18y agoWhy is typing something like maximusklein.gmail.com and logging in with google more complicated than maximusklein@gmail.com. People keep saying over and over again that open ID is too hard for average users, but I just don't see any evidence that this is the case.
- maxklein 18y agoBecause I know clearly what one is, but I am unsure what the other one is. To me, the URL is a webpage. And it's not clear to me how a webpage is going to log me into another webpage if I am a user. Users don't see URLs as URLs, they see them as pages, like on a newspaper. So OpenID is based on a concept that alien to users.