You actually only have to put in "yahoo.com" to log in with Yahoo's OpenID, not your whole identity url. Of course it's not perfect but his article makes it sound worse than it actually is.
Yet another post stating something is flawed, yet giving no suggestions as to how to fix it. Yes, openID is flawed, but until someone thinks of a better way, I think it's good enough.
Well, you don't need to fix what isn't broken. For most people, normal registrations work fine, so they will ignore openID, and thus suggestions to fix openID are nill because it doesnt matter to begin with.
Of course there are proponents of openID and sure, go ahead, use it. But wide adoption of it is not likely for some time. And by some time, I mean possibly never.
I disagree that it isn't currently broken. I can't think of how many sites I've completely passed up on because I didn't feel like going through yet another registration form and having to create another username and password. Ever since I began actually using openid on sites, I've been really looking forward to a time when I could just go ahead and log into an interesting new site with whatever open ID I happen to prefer at the moment.
Hmm - I think it implies it pretty obviously that the delegation step is what makes it too complicated. Personally I agree - I don't see much use of that additional redirection. It insulates you a bit from the provider - but I would not use OpenID for things that need that additional security.
