[uf-discuss] OpenID

Mike Kaply microformats at kaply.com
Tue Feb 20 14:30:15 PST 2007


The problem here is that there is concept of types in URLS....

All parsers see is multiple URLS. We don't know which is the openid URL...

Mike Kaply

On 2/20/07, John Panzer <panzerjohn at aol.com> wrote:
> Thom Shannon wrote:
>   > Hi,
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>   > Forgive me if this is going over old ground, I just joined this list and
>   > couldn't find what I was looking for on the wiki. Are there any
>   > particular conventions emerging for embedding an OpenID into a hCard?
>   > The openid-brainstorming page mentions using hCard on providers profile
>   > pages etc, but I was thinking there should be a way to have your OpenID
>   > on other profiles that can easily be consumed, allowing someone to see
>   > you on social network A and add you on their social network B based on
>   > you using the same OpenID.
>   >
>   > I'm guessing it would be as simple as <a class="url fn openid"
>   > href="http://ts0.com">? Just wanted to know what others are doing.
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> I actually have the same question.  At the moment we're doing this:
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> <span class="vcard"><a class="fn
> url"href="http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn"
> target="_blank">panzerjohn</a></span>
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> where http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn is an OpenID URL (or will be
> shortly).  A live example is at
> http://beta.journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer.
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> I had been thinking it might be useful to be explicit about the fact
> that the target is not just a url, but also an openid.  If people think
> that's a good idea I can add it in to our code.
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> -John
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