Hopefully the future of logging in

[andrewducker]

I was going to say "Now, if only they can get Microsoft, Apple, and Google on board", but actually, it works perfectly well without their browser integration, so let's just hope that websites start to pick it up...

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[andrewducker]

You've set up Firefox Sync. So have I. Care to guess how many average users have done so? Not to mention the hordes of people using IE?

[steer.livejournal.com]

Well, firefox sync is a browser built-in now so every firefox user has the option and IIRC it pops up a "set me up" bubble when you start firefox for the first time -- so I guess anyone who can be arsed... For guessing how many average users will do so... I guess why would it be different to the users who will use the technology demoed there though which presumably also needs a central account to store stuff (or fails to work across machines in which case it's a big fail).

I presume other browsers have their equivalent and, in any case, these guys are demoing what they have written for a few browsers and saying they will try to get it working on other browsers at some point.

[andrewducker]

It's not browser dependent. The videos shows it working on an iPad inside the browser there.

Firefox is building support into the browser, but it's designed to work without any browser support.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Hmm... you may be correct on this... the demo is kind of sketchy on that but they do seem to hint that there's a "pure html" solution.

[andrewducker]

Yup - and it works in IE and Chrome.