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Password Card
As is says on the home page:
- A long term goal is that [the Higgins] client offer what might be called "universal login." This is the ability to log you in to almost any website or app (called a Relying Party (RP)) using a variety of methods including I-Card, OpenID and username/password.
This page focuses on the username/password subgoal mentioned above.
Requirements
a) Support these Password Card Use Cases
b) Adhere to these constraints:
- No extra UI on the browser chrome (e.g. a toolbar)
- Note: Roboform, Google Toolbar require you to click a button on a toolbar
- Automatically highlights fields that it can fill (like Google Toolbar, Sxipper)
- Browsers do not natively do this
- Pure superset of the browser's built-in functionality
Open Issues
What Triggers the fill. Alternatives:
- the user must click in username (or password??) field to trigger fill
- automatic - native password managers automatically fill