Just as reference, BrowserID has plans for profile fields. It doesn't seem high priority but is on the roadmap somewhere.
Proposal: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Profile/Proposal The ticket was updated 4 months ago but has some mock proposals by Crystal: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/880 --- Harald Kirschner | Mozillian Software Engineer | [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Gangadhar Nittala wrote: > Suggestions for the UI (my designer skills are not that good, so I > can't create these images, sorry about that) > > 1. A permission in the manifest file that allows for any app to > request for user information - so that during installation of the app, > the user can view the permissions needed for the app > 2. If the application is requesting for this information for the first > time, then the user is prompted with a message: 'MyCoolApp is > requesting for your name and email address. Do you wish to share this > information?". The icon beside this message will be a Yellow warning > symbol (warning since, the user might always suspect any app > requesting for personal information) > 3. There will be checkbox below the message - 'Remember this decision > for this app' > 4. There will be four buttons - No / e-mail only / Name only / Both > e-mail and name > 5. At the app level there must be settings that will allow the user to > reset the 'remember my decision' status [ Am guessing something like > this exists for location tracking, so the same can be used here too] > > User says, 'No': On the top right (or left in the case of LtoR > languages) corner / bottom corner, a blue-filled circle is displayed, > with an user image (the bust ) and a red-line across it. This is to > signify that there is no user information shared with the application. > Blue so as to give a neutral color for the user. Tooltip: Name and > e-mail are not shared with the app > > User says 'Name only': Same as above, the icon now has a blue circle, > with a user image with an overlay of a N in white. The letter 'N' > since using a name like John / JDoe might not be identified by all > users - not sure on this one though. Tooltip: Name is shared with the > app > > User says 'email only': Same as above, icon now has the standard email > icon representation - with a blue circle with an 'e' in a circle or a > white circle with a blue 'e'. Tooltip: e-mail address is shared with > the app. > > User says 'both' : A green circle, with a user-bust. Tooltip: Name and > e-mail address are shared with the app > > Like I said, these are just my suggestions. Please let me know what > you think. Also, is there a permission in the manifest already for > getting this user information? > > Regards, > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Myk Melez <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > [adding to: and reply-to: dev-webapi, which seems more appropriate for > > > this > > > question] > > > > > > > > > Appists! > > > > > > felipiz on IRC during today's Apps Challenge in Brazil asked whether > > > there's > > > an API to get personal information about the user of an app, for example > > > their name and primary email address, so it isn't necessary for each app > > > that wants such info to ask the user for it. > > > > > > I looked at the list of new WebAPIs <https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI>but > > > didn't see anything like that (unless Contacts provides it). Has it been > > > considered, and are there any plans to provide it? > > > > > > > > > We haven't looked at anything like this so far, no. > > > > It seems like something we could do, but as always with these things, > > we'd have to come up with good UI which makes it clear to the user > > what is happening. > > > > / Jonas > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-webapps mailing list > > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-webapps mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps > > _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
