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[Mozilla] Online Identity Concept Series

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Online Identity Concept Series
Your online identity, which is key to enabling a personalized Web experience, is not simply a single atom of data. It is a dense cluster of your accounts (e.g. e-mail, banking, shopping, etc.), relationships and other personal information, spread across the Web and throughout all of your personal computing devices.

Your Web browser, as your most trusted relationship in your life online, has nearly perfect knowledge of everything you do on the Web. We envision a world where your browser will play an even more active and critical role in helping you control and shape your online experience.

To realize this vision, we need to increase the browser’s understanding of your online identity and provide a platform for building new capabilities that securely take advantage of this rich, dynamic set of data that represents the digital “you.”

This Concept Series will focus on online identity management and is intended to provoke thought, facilitate discussion, and inspire future design directions for Firefox, the Mozilla project, and the Web as a whole.
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Today’s Web is highly personalized. If you take a look at a lot of today’s top Web sites, you’d be hard-pressed to find one that doesn’t allow some sort of personalized experience. From posting photos to customizing your homepage to your banking, your online identity is an important piece of the Web experience.

The experience of signing up and connecting to sites, however, is stuck in time: Consider that the way that we use usernames and passwords to log on to most web sites hasn’t changed in more than a decade, even while the number of unique businesses and services that we use online has increased dramatically.

Even new technologies such as OpenID still require a similar (and sometimes even more confusing) experience. Browsers have evolved slightly to try to cope with the situation by remembering usernames and passwords, but browsers are currently unable to do much more, because so much of the process is different for each site.

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The new HTTP Extension.


Just to spread it to people.
 
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It is intended to complement existing practices around HTTP and cookie-based user identification, and to provide a graceful roadmap for adoption of new technologies over time.
It's talking about the way we log in, to this forum for example. This forum uses FORMs and cookies for authentication and session management.

HTTP already has basically this exact same mechanism, just that nobody uses it because every competent web developer on the face of the planet doesn't know half of the features of any of the technologies they employ. The "good practice" of the web is monkey see monkey do.
 
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