BrowserID is a great long-term design for an identity system (much better than OpenID or WebID) and it already has a great UI. Use this right now on your fancy

BrowserID is a great long-term design for an identity system (much better than OpenID or WebID) and it already has a great UI. Use this right now on your fancy new webapp rather than asking your users to create a new account and password. This blog post gives the best explanation of how it works: http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works Something to note is that it's _slightly_ too good to be true right now. Although the UI is already polished and usable, the whole authentication backend is currently mocked-up using services hosted by Mozilla. Unlike Facebook connect, however, there is a specific plan to move this process off Mozilla's servers and onto your browser and your web frameworks.