Shibboleth.net discovery interface

[Chris Phillips]

Lurking a long time on this list..

Any thoughts on http://discojuice.org/ ?

Can be embedded locally and allows for extra domain hints and leverages
MDUI elements..

Chris.


On 14-01-06 2:14 PM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

>On 1/6/14, 2:02 PM, "Tom Scavo" <trscavo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Hmm, I'm not sure I understand the responses, so let me try again.
>>When I click "Allow me to pick from a list," (which I don't routinely
>>use, but I'm sure others do)
>
>I can't imagine why anybody would use it ever. I could turn it off,
>frankly, it's just there because it's a way of gauging how it behaves on a
>data set that size.
>
>>I can think of at least one alternative approach that is highly
>>preferred (by me, at least). The list of IdPs could be presented as an
>>ordinary HTML list (<ul><li>...</li>...</ul>) from top to bottom
>>(doesn't matter how many there are). The content of such a list is
>>immediately apparent (no extra click) and it's easy to traverse such a
>>list since it's just an ordinary browser page. Indeed, I just grab the
>>scroll box and scroll down to the bottom of the list in no time flat.
>
>But it's just as useless as a tool for this purpose. Recall the concept of
>the EDS in general. While this specific example is on a page by itself,
>that's not really intended. I have to do that because Confluence and Jira
>are so limited in their SSO capabilities.
>
>The basic idea was that the UI for this would be embeddable inside some
>other page's look and feel. In that situation, you can't do what you're
>suggesting because it would throw off the surrounding design.
>
>In this example, it wouldn't really do that, but that is why the EDS
>doesn't work that way.
>
>>Then I'm missing something since an HTML list is *much* easier to
>>traverse than a drop-down menu. I can't believe I'm only one who
>>thinks this.
>
>Well, I definitely think they're both useless *in this context*. I don't
>think your point in general, which is true, applies to this function
>specifically. It could turn a bad interface into something slightly less
>bad but no more effective for its intended purpose of selecting an IdP.
>The only way you could find the one you wanted was to search the page of
>links.
>
>-- Scott
>
>
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