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I have meant to implement it on my own web page for many months now, but never gotten to it. Now it is spreading around the web like nothing else, and code libraries to help you add it to your web page, or your software is really getting somewhere.

Opera has it's own solution to the problem. The wand. And most other browsers use more or less the same method. It is a good approach, no doubt. But those times when you are not at home, or when you spoil yourself with a new computer, or maybe for some reason want to change browser. Then what? You are back where you started.

But the problems doesn't stop there. What if you want to start asking questions at some random forum. A few days later, you find and other forum. You would have to register again before your browser could help you out at all. Your browser could probably help you fill out some of the fields, but why should you have to do it? You don't go to apply for a new passport every time you go to a new country do you? OpenID saves your day again. As long as the new forum also support OpenID, it will more than happy find the every piece of info it needs, so you can just do what you came there to do.

Lately there has been more and more good news about web pages adding OpenID as an option to log in. And it made me think, hat would be the first browser to add some support in this area? And what kind of support could it be? I guess even adding a wand field in Opera could be a good start, though I have some other loose ideas that I might have to think a bit more about before sharing.

And what about our dear community. Wouldn't it be nice to add a possebility for us to log in using our OpenID here too? Or maybe even become an identity provider. Think about the recognition. There has been way too many fights about who added support for what feature first in a browser. Well who wants to win this one?