Fear the Cowboy

This is very exciting news.

Kevin Miller, has released his FireFox extension for CardSpace. We have been collaborating for the last several weeks in order to for him to deliver this really critical piece of the Identity Metasystem.

Kevin's work on this has been nothing less than fantastic. I assisted him where I could, mostly in helping him test it, and giving him the sample code that I provide at the CardSpace Website. 

The extension, in it's first release is pretty damn impressive. It's got support for the whole <object> tag syntax, as well as the alternative <ic:information card> syntax, it's fully supported by scripting, and it seems to work pretty much exactly as the support in Internet Explorer 7.0.

Of course, it does rely on the .NET 3.0 framework, as this actually uses CardSpace to deliver the security token back to the browser. (which kinda limits it to Windows, right?)

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE?

He's built it in such a way that another identity selector can be plugged in, simply by implementing an XPCOM interface. This makes it significantly easier for other developers to get the same level of support from FireFox as CardSpace! (Hey, even IE can't do that...  yet!) I suspect this will accelerate much of the open-source identity selectors we're likely to see.

So how can we know that it's there?

Well, I confess, I've gotten to play with it a lot over the last week or two. Which means that I was able to jump the gun and figure out how to detect it. (Actually Kevin had to put some code in to *allow* me to detect it. FireFox-R-A-Tricksey browser!). I'll make another post here later today that demonstrates that.

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