> > Anecdotally, you can look at most any Flickr app to see how they > > handle an auth system that's very similar to OAuth. It does often > > involve bouncing to the browser, but that's the intended workflow. > > That's what I mean. This would definitely be UX hurt for a standalone > application, and it still doesn't solve the callback problem. Chris?
And one more followup is how Google tried to deal with this, which I just found. Some of these issues would be very difficult to overcome in practice. http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/UXFedLogin/desktopapps -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson -------