On: Logins without logins.

[elliottkember]

Oh, wow - I don't like this at all. Requiring me to have my phone on me to log in? Making me select my name from a list to log in? Then prompting me with a new form? These solutions seem awful and unintuitive to me.

Even worse, how am I going to explain this login system to my parents, or even my non-technical friends?

It's like OpenID login a while back. "Enter a URL to log in" was wasn't quite as easy to understand as developers thought.

This needs to be baked-in to the browser. Unfortunately, because we have loads of different browser vendors, I don't think we'll ever see a decent solution.

[nodata → elliottkember]

Better: https://login.persona.org/

[kordless → nodata]

Better in that it requires me to use Mozilla/Firefox? I think not.

[__david__ → kordless]

It does not require Firefox. I just built it into an app as an alternative to Facebook logins and it works just fine from any browser out there.

[user-id → nodata]

OK, so they've changed BrowserID to Mozilla Persona. How reassuring, I don't recall being notified of such a change.

[alexchamberlain → elliottkember]

They all agree on HTTP...

We'll get one in time; it just won't be as quick as we would like.

[callahad → alexchamberlain]

Mike Hanson's article, "LIFDing the web" [0] outlines a really interesting way to prototype and introduce new browser features. Highly recommended.

[0]: http://www.open-mike.org/entry/lifding-the-web