Simon Willison’s Weblog

HTML 5 vs. Yadis. The draft HTML5 spec currently disallows values for http-equiv and link rel which aren’t listed in the spec—meaning both methods of specifying a link to an OpenID server are invalid for HTML5. This should probably be fixed...

# 19th April 2008, 4:35 pm / html5, openid, yadis, standards

A proposal: email to URL mapping. Brad’s just too damn smart. A simple solution to mapping an e-mail address to an OpenID that takes advantage of existing technology (YADIS) and doesn’t adversely affect e-mail privacy.

# 8th February 2008, 11:39 am / email, openid, urls, brad-fitzpatrick, yadis

SMTP Service Extension for Yadis Discovery. Could potentially let you use your e-mail address as an OpenID, although personally I wouldn’t always want to hand my address over to third-party sites.

# 5th February 2007, 9:44 am / openid, yadis, email, identity, dmitryshechtman