BrowserID is an initiative to provide the web with a better way to sign in. The web is a connected collection of resources and you should not have to have a user name and password for each of them when you could use the web instead.

Today we show you a screencast of how easy BrowserID makes it to login to a web site. For this, we’ll look at how the login flow for an existing BrowserID user works the first time they log in on a new website. Our example website is OpenPhoto, a hot new photo sharing app that keeps users in control of their data.

Screencast of logging into OpenPhoto with BrowserID

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BrowserID needs your help to grow and become a weapon of choice in the fight against insecure and annoying login systems. The great thing is that now is the time where you can be part of this.

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  1. Robert O’Callahan wrote on November 9th, 2011 at 6:47 pm:

    In the “implement BrowserID” document, why are steps 2 and 3 separate? Couldn’t we offer a single API that gets the assertion and automatically performs the POST request, returning the result to a callback? Seems like that would simplify the process even more.

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    1. Robert O’Callahan wrote on November 9th, 2011 at 6:50 pm:

      Oh, I get it … step 2 runs on the client, which passes the assertion to the site’s server, then step 3 runs on the site’s server I guess. The document should probably be clearer about that.

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  2. Quxxy wrote on November 10th, 2011 at 2:10 am:

    With maxed video and system volume and headphones, I still can’t hear a word you’re saying. You might need to normalise the audio.

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    1. Igor wrote on November 10th, 2011 at 8:14 am:

      I was watching this in Chrome and there is definitively something wrong with audio.

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  3. Austin King wrote on November 10th, 2011 at 10:15 am:

    Sorry for the audio glitch. it is quite low.

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  4. Unknown wrote on November 15th, 2011 at 12:33 am:

    What browser are you using? Is this the new firefox aurora? It looks really cool!

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  5. comzeradd wrote on November 16th, 2011 at 5:03 am:

    What I haven’t quite understand yet, is browserid going to be implemented inside the browser at some point?

    Currently there a provider (borwserid.org) that verifies our (email) identities. This may be different from openid on the technical level, but none on the UX level.

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  6. eonsaway wrote on November 26th, 2011 at 4:50 pm:

    The video sound is way to low. Will check back.

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  7. Samuel wrote on December 30th, 2011 at 1:51 pm:

    Kindly check this example in the link attached and you will ready to roll.
    Ensure that you use the required two javascript libraries jquery.min.js and include.js

    https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/blob/dev/example/index.html

    Thanks

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