I’m being my normal self and am working on a personal project to “be my own boss”. Translation: I’m coding a web application for one of my 20 or so domain names.
In the past when working on a web application, I would either write an authentication scheme or borrow from an Open Source project like PHP User Class, but this time, I think I”m going to try something I’ve never seen before - not using any coded authentication - on my end.
Over the years, I’ve managed to pick up more username and password combos on different websites than I care to even think of remembering. Every time I manage to hit one of these websites, I must remember the right username and password, if Firefox isn’t setup to remember it for me. In today’s age, however, there seems to be something that prevents me from designing this archaic system over again. Why should I write an Authentication Scheme when Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, MySpace and others have done it for me?
So, if you made it through all that and are still confused, I’m thinking about a website that could possibly be popular (isn’tthat every website?) with no “Register”, no “Login Username/Password” and all that junk. The only form of logging in is a choice of which service to log in with, be it Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, Facebook and possibly more.
At the moment, Alexa, as flawed as they are, lists Yahoo and Google as the two most popular websites on the web. With those two websites, I can probably cover 90% or more of my users, although I may through Microsoft’s Live authentication scheme in as well to include more people. I know Zoho and others use both Yahoo & Google together, mixed with their own authentication scheme. I’m just a little curious how this would go over.
