I’ve spent the last couple months trying to answer this question myself (even posted on Stack Overflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7522831/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-implicit-grant-authorization-type-in-oauth-2), and here’s the best answer I can come up with: it’s a great solution for someone like, say, Facebook or Twitter to be able to hand out a blob of javascript and say, “Here, put this on your web page to enable users to like/tweet/post on their account.” The 3rd-party web site doesn’t have to write a lick of oauth code to manage the authorization process – the access token just magically becomes available in the javascript code.
Dan On 11/15/11 10:28 AM, "John Joseph Bachir" <j...@jjb.cc> wrote: Okay, so I think the basic thing I'm not getting is: what's the use case for a javascript client? Googling doesn't help much here... _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list OAuth@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
