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If Google had stuck with the standard OpenID implementation, they could've still had the same user experience. http://zain@gmail.com/ http://zain@gmail.com/ is
by zain 18y ago
If Google had stuck with the standard OpenID implementation, they could've still had the same user experience. http://zain@gmail.com/ http://zain@gmail.com/ is a valid URL, and Google could've used that as the OpenID URL.
- fallentimes 18y agoEntering http before your email address doesn't make any sense to the average user.
- Harkins 18y agoEntering http doesn't make any sense to the average user.
- fallentimes 18y agoExactly.
- tlrobinson 18y agoThe http:// http:// is not necessarily required, he was just pointing out that it's a valid URI and thus can be used as an OpenID identifier. It seems most OpenID implementations handle identifiers without the http:// http:// prepended.
- siculars 18y agohow hard would it be to slap "http:// http://" onto the email if it wasnt there? that way you get your email and you dont break the standard. not hard, not hard at all.
- tlrobinson 18y agoMost/all OpenID libraries already seem to handle identifiers without the http:// http:// If the libraries don't already support the "@" syntax, they should. If Google's way of doing things requires any proprietary changes, I'd say it's unacceptable, but if that's the only change necessary then it seems like a reasonable way of doing things.