[uf-discuss] OpenID

Tue Feb 20 14:01:17 PST 2007

Thom Shannon wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > 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.
I actually have the same question. At the moment we're doing this:
<span class="vcard"><a class="fn
url"href="http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn"
target="_blank">panzerjohn</a></span>
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.
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.
-John