BrowserID in-browser [LWN.net]

BrowserID in-browser

Posted Aug 18, 2011 19:50 UTC (Thu) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
In reply to: BrowserID in-browser by josh
Parent article: Developments in Mozilla-land

They've been wanting to do that for years. But getting the protocol right was the problem. It is an add-on now, but will be part of the browser soon enough I'm sure.

Here are the first mockups from 2009:

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/identity-in-the-browser-f...

They tried to utilize OpenID first, but that didn't fit the use case. They had to search for OpenID-buttons in HTML to make it compatible with existing sites and that wasn't reliable I guess.

Here is their 2010 effort:

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/account-manager-coming-t...

Other developments I was missing from the article:

I thought HTML5 Video-chat was already solved in 2010:

https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/beyond...

Mozilla is working on a parser/-rendered for PDF in JavaScript utilizing HTML5 (Canvas):

https://wiki.mozilla.org/PDF.js

It actually worked quiet well, a working demo-page seems to be MIA right now.

They are obviously trying to solve 2 things with all these developments: Trying to create useful things and trying to stretch the existing technology. And come up with standards and specifications which all browser vendors can implement.

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