On 7 Jun 2010, at 18:42, Steven Livingstone-Perez wrote:
> The idea in principal appeals but a lot seems to be dependent on browser
> vendor support & OpenID in the browser should really have been (and should
> still be [1]) a no brainer for the browser vendors - I anticipate the same
> level of "uptake" by them for this.
It already works in the browser, and has for years. The problem is that most
people here don't want to look at the solution, because of fear of the semantic
web it seems, or some such (not sure).
You can see it working in this home made video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iZPJBpI2Po&feature=player_embedded
(I welcome people coming up with better videos)
The protocol is detailed here:
http://esw.w3.org/Foaf+ssl
There are some small browser improvements that could be made, though it would
not take long to convince some of the browsers vendors to make them.
Henry
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>
> In short, until we can get the browsers to put social as a first class
> citizen (and look how long universal OpenSearch support in the browsers
> took) we have a battle.
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