I'm planning on writing up a blog entry on this but... my thought is that as a typical website designer, you want:
1) A "social login" like Facebook or G+ that allows you to provide a rich social experience by bringing social graph information to the table. Also smooths out asking for basic info like name, age, sex, etc. 2) A backup login for people who are unwilling to accept #1. This could be local login, but BrowserID is far easier to implement, a far better UX, and far more secure. When/if it gets integrated into the browser it will be even more seamless - but the UX is already great. Of course different kinds of websites demand different approaches; you wouldn't use this kind of login for a banking system. But for the typical social website, this is a good mix. And if you don't need social features, just going with straight-up #2 is stupid-simple to implement. OpenID is a disaster both from an implementation perspective (PITA) and a UX perspective. We've put years and years into polishing the UX and it's still incredibly confusing for users, especially when they forget how they logged in last and end up creating multiple accounts. OpenID as a general-purpose login system isn't going to get better (although OpenID as a protocol for specifically enabling G+ login is probably not going away anytime soon). Jeff On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Francois Masurel <[email protected]> wrote: > I really think that users should be able to choose which authentication > system is best for them and which one they want to use. BrowserID might be > one of them. > > What do you think of Google 2-steps authentication? Looks pretty interesting > to me. > > Francois > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/P4NMoSRdleQJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- We are the 20% -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
