OpenID as hCards

June 21, 2007 in Microformats, OpenID by Carsten Pötter | View Comments

Have myOpenID’s identity pages always been hCards? I have just discovered hCards there this evening, though I am old and blind and they probably have been there since day one; it’s not the first time I seem to be ignorant of myOpenID’s features.

Anyway, those hCards are created if users decide to make one of their personas a public persona. However there are just those properties available which are defined by the OpenID Simple Registration Extension (SREG):

  • nick name
  • email
  • full name
  • date of birth
  • gender
  • postcode
  • country
  • preferred language
  • timezone

But if you’re familiar with hCards you have probably realised already that not all SREG response options are hCard properties. So the myOpenID hCard is only consisting of full name, nick name, email, postal code, and date of birth.

Both SREG and hCards provide values which describe a person more accurately. Why don’t they offer the same properties?

  • I never mentioned that before, thanks for the tip.
  • Carsten Pötter
    Yep. that would be cool. BTW, you really love MicroID, don't you? ;)
  • Robert Mark White
    I love the idea that myopenid uses hcards, but what they really need to add is MicroID to the myopenid identity page allowing someone to claim their openid on claimid or wink.
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