Certainly there is a lot of work to be done on the OpenID UX (user experience) front. I've got to disagree with that statement; OpenID just hasn't (and probabl

Certainly there is a lot of work to be done on the OpenID UX (user experience) front. I've got to disagree with that statement; OpenID just hasn't (and probably never will unless a big player like Yahoo! can give it a proper face) taken off enough in the mainstream view to be a reasonable option for end-users. Sure the possibility is there that Yahoo! can expand on the UX of providing an alternative login, but the following factors play in here: 1. As we already stated OpenID just isn't something that's going to have proper face time 2. Yahoo! cares about it's own login metrics and it only makes sense it wants to keep things internal and more predictable 3. Form follows function; the median of the above two facts can only beg that if 80% of users use login A, and 20% use login B that one is made more apparent than the other.