If there is one thing that is universal to all websites, it is the login process. Almost every website requires you to create an account, enter your e-mail address, verify your account, and log in before you can use any of the advanced features of the website.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a universal login mechanism for the web? One where you just had to click a login button and your browser would take care of filling out your account details? What if you didn’t need to remember different passwords to log into websites? What if we could do all of this and ensure that only you and the website you are communicating with would be able to see the data you are sending?
The good news is that there are some very smart people working on this problem. The solution is called WebID. The bad news is that there remained one problem that would take the browser vendors years to solve. That is, until Dave Longley (our CTO), discovered a way to make WebID work in all the current browsers in use today, including Internet Explorer…