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ozten on Sept 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

If you had a browser, say Opera, with native support for the BrowserID protocol, then you would not see login.persona.org. No requests would be made to a Mozilla server.

login.persona.org is two things:

1) A JavaScript shim for cross platform support (Opera + BrowserID support would avoid this)

2) A Fallback Identity provider (eyedee.me avoids this)

DASD on Sept 27, 2012 | [–]

And with your explanation, all becomes clear. Thanks for that and now I can understand how slick this should become.

zimbatm on Sept 27, 2012 | [–]

Realistically though the fallback will need to be kept around for a long time.

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