On 2013-05-17 at 10:08:20, Olivier Berger wrote: > AFAIU, I guess that, at least from the user-friendliness POV, the main > perceptible difference, is : > - OpenID uses a URL as a person's identifier : may or not be easily > copied/remembered/dictated > - WebID uses a URL too, same problems (there are other benefits over > OpenID, however, but limiting this post to this aspect of user > friendliness only) > - BrowserID uses a "mail like" identifier, which we seem to have gotten > used to remember more easily, it seems. > > There are tons of other aspects to compare, of course, but from the > marketing POV, these are quite importants ones ;)
I would argue that protecting user privacy is also relevant in the context of being friendly to users ;) >From that point of view, OpenID leaks (to your IdP) the list of sites you log into whereas BrowserID is designed to prevent that. I don't know about WebID. Francois -- Francois Marier identi.ca/fmarier http://fmarier.org twitter.com/fmarier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130518052045.gb30...@isafjordur.dyndns.org
