ShiftEdit has been getting some great press this weekend thanks to the writers at Ajaxian and Profy (thanks! 
). Profy’s review, in particular, brought up a lot of great points I’ll address in future blog posts (it’s 1am, I’m tired 
) but one thing they both mentioned, was the lack of an OpenID login on ShiftEdit.
We initially decided to launch with just Facebook and MSN/Live/Hotmail logins because with 64 million and 380 million users respectively, we thought that should cover just about anyone wanting to try our service But I think these writers both correctly identified the need to support the OpenID community. So I burned through a few cans of Gingerale, found a great OpenID library, yada yada yada, and ShiftEdit now supports OpenID login.
Long live the open Web!
UPDATE: I had some reports that Yahoo OpenID wasn’t working with my first implementation. Looks like the library I had used didn’t support the last OpenID 2.0 protocol. So I switched over to using the ExtremeSwank library. It has a better name anyhow Please try it out and let me know!
Doesn’t seem to be working 100%. I just tried logging in with my Yahoo based OpenID and it did nothing… not sure why.
I think the library I used doesn’t support OpenID 2.0 standard. I’ll pop in another one
It’s working with Yahoo OpenID now
Have fun!
Agreed… works really smoothly now! Woot for bug fixes.
I think the load balancing has broke it again
I fixed it…AGAIN. OpenID is a harsh mistress
I was able to login using my OpenID this morning in my hotel room. Now that I’m at the conference, I can’t get connected. I am able to go to the ClaimID.com site and log in just fine; evidently it’s just the connection between ShiftEdit and ClaimID that’s having a problem.
Hi, I have been trying to use my livejournal account as the address to login, but I keep getting a “openid reject your request”, even though I have authorized from livejournal’s end. If you can provide any help it would be most appreciated.
Tried using a Yubikey delegated through my personal website, and I get into an endless loop of login.