On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Josh Rosenberg
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 1.  Try to infer a display name from the URL.  This could be done just for
> some common (whitelisted) sites, or also for unknown sites that have a URL
> that looks like it might be "username.site.com" or "site.com/~username",
> or also for things that look like personal URLs and don't have
> subdomains/subdirectories, or whatever.  Displayed names could look like
> "desh [site: livejournal.com]" and "bradfitz [site: bradfitz.com]", or
> something like that.

I'm pretty sure Blogger already does something like this -- OpenID
commenters from LJ show up as just their LJ username, rather than the
whole URL [username.livejournal.com], but if you mouseover "username"
it's a link to username.livejournal.com.

I also like this because it's not obvious on first glance that it IS
an LJ account user leaving the comment.  It's just a clean way of
saying "I'm an authenticated user, but not from this site" without
getting bogged down with extra information about WHICH site you're
using to authenticate.  I would love to see DW's handling of OpenID
look something like that, rather than LJ's handling.

Kristen
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