Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
The login form should be properly implemented as a FormSpecialPage. I have some initial code drafted for that if you want. The only big problem is supporting the various hooks in the current form. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizk

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Jon Robson
What Steven said. On Sep 28, 2012 8:57 PM, "Steven Walling" wrote: > On Sep 28, 2012 8:40 PM, "Mark Holmquist" wrote: > >> > >> I'm fine with features using JS. It's just important that the feature is > >> either an additive feature that is not necessary for use or it has a way > >> to work with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Steven Walling
On Sep 28, 2012 8:40 PM, "Mark Holmquist" wrote: >> >> I'm fine with features using JS. It's just important that the feature is >> either an additive feature that is not necessary for use or it has a way >> to work without JS. >> In this case we're talking about login. If you disable JS... you can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
I'm fine with features using JS. It's just important that the feature is either an additive feature that is not necessary for use or it has a way to work without JS. In this case we're talking about login. If you disable JS... you can't even log into your own user account. And disabling JS is supp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:57:51 -0700, Mark Holmquist wrote: What use does this have to WMF? I think we make a lot of cool features that require JavaScript. And yes, it's not universally usable, but it's helpful to spend time on those things, because while they may not make Lynx [0] users

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 29.09.2012 00:03, schrieb Chad: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Gries wrote: >>> BrowserID/Persona currently requires JavaScript to function. So it >>> really doesn't fit the kind of thing that we support as a standard way >>> to login. >>> >>> I don't think it's a very good use of WM

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Chad
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Gries wrote: > >> BrowserID/Persona currently requires JavaScript to function. So it >> really doesn't fit the kind of thing that we support as a standard way >> to login. >> >> I don't think it's a very good use of WMF's funding. > > Is this the begin of a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
What use does this have to WMF? I think we make a lot of cool features that require JavaScript. And yes, it's not universally usable, but it's helpful to spend time on those things, because while they may not make Lynx [0] users happier, they'll probably make things easier for, e.g., people w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 28.09.2012 23:52, schrieb Mark Holmquist: >> Is this the begin of a clash of civilisations between WMF and >> MediaWiki ? > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation is > the proper place to discuss that more, if you'd like to. No ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
Is this the begin of a clash of civilisations between WMF and MediaWiki ? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation is the proper place to discuss that more, if you'd like to. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Thomas Gries
> BrowserID/Persona currently requires JavaScript to function. So it > really doesn't fit the kind of thing that we support as a standard way > to login. > > I don't think it's a very good use of WMF's funding. Is this the begin of a clash of civilisations between WMF and MediaWiki ? __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:33:44 -0700, Thomas Gries wrote: RE: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-launches-beta-of-Persona-identity-system-1719634.html (English) RE: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Einheitliches-Web-Login-Mozilla-veroeffenlicht-Beta-von-Persona-1719623.html (Ger

[Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla "Persona") - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Thomas Gries
RE: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-launches-beta-of-Persona-identity-system-1719634.html (English) RE: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Einheitliches-Web-Login-Mozilla-veroeffenlicht-Beta-von-Persona-1719623.html (German) RE: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid I suggest, as