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Simply always refer to the Persona password as "Persona password". > In a world where every email provider supports Persona natively, Persona truly is a "no ne
by uvtc 14y ago
Simply always refer to the Persona password as "Persona password".
> In a world where every email provider supports Persona natively, Persona truly is a "no new passwords" authentication system, since it delegates to your provider.
I don't know what this means. I won't give Persona my gmail/yahoo-mail email password.
- callahad 14y agoYeah, it's confusing. If your email provider is supported, your browser talks directly to your email provider, without Mozilla in the middle. We don't want your passwords, honest! :) You can try out the supported email provider workflow by signing up for a dummy account at eyedee.me, and then using that account to sign in at, say, 123done.org.
- jackalope 14y agoWait, if this system works with a dummy account, then a valid email address isn't necessary at all. Any domain can set up an identity provider to support user@domain. Why drag email providers into the discussion, then? It confuses everyone.
- stickfigure 14y agoIt confuses you because you are a technologist. For 99.99% of the world, user@domain == email address. "Sign in with your email address" gets the point across. "Sign in with your user identity at a controlling DNS authority" may be more accurate, but will actually confuse everyone.