{"id":579,"date":"2006-09-13T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=579"},"modified":"2006-09-14T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T01:03:07","slug":"information-cards-for-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"First Information Cards for Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"click<\/a> One of the best moments of the DIDW show, for me, came when Ian Brown, an old friend of Chuck Mortimore, showed us<\/a> his Identity Selector for Safari.<\/p>\n

If you don't know Chuck, he single-handedly wrote a Java-based InfoCard Identity Selector that runs inside Firefox on almost any platform.  He gave me a copy, helped me install it on my computer, and it all just works.<\/p>\n

Later I'll do a screen capture of Chuck's work since i can run it on my own machine. <\/p>\n

But I don't currently have a Mac – so Ian succumbed to my goading and put together a little video so you could see what he's working on.<\/p>\n

That's such good news.  As he says, “For the faint of heart, or for those running those other operating systems, here's a short screencast of the Safari identity selector in action, authN'ing against Kim Cameron's RP<\/a>…”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, here's what he says<\/a> about the actual plugin:<\/p>\n

This is currently still at the proof of concept stage, and is lacking most of the features found in the official CardSpace selector from Microsoft. At present, only a single self-asserted card can be selected. The “selector” will currently pull the logged in account's personal information from the AddressBook application, and allow you to use that AddressBook entry as a self-asserted InfoCard with various RPs. It should work with existing installs of Safari, and with most relying parties.<\/p>\n

The plug-in itself is a wrapper around Chuck Mortimore<\/a>‘s Java implementation<\/a> of an InfoCard token generator. For those of you out there using Firefox, check out Chuck's cross-platform Firefox InfoCard selector<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So download the Safari Plug-In below and give it a spin. Send me any feedback at igb at hccp.org<\/strong><\/p>\n

I'll post new releases here as features are added and bugs are fixed.<\/p>\n

Downloads<\/h4>\n

Currently there are two versions, one for the new Intel-based Apple's, and one for the PowerPC-based machiines. At some point I'll figure out how to get XCode to generate a Universal Binary. (I suppose the PowerPC build might work on the Intel Macs, that's what Rosetta<\/a> is all about right? But it hasn't been tested on the Intel arch, so YMMV.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\nIntel version<\/strong><\/font><\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.hccp.org\/InfocardPlugin.bundle.zip<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\nPowerPC version<\/strong><\/font><\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.hccp.org\/InfocardPluginPPC.bundle.zip<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Installation<\/h4>\n

Installation is pretty simple. After downloading the ZIP file, extract the archive. You should now have a file called InfocardPlugin.bundle<\/strong>. Just copy that to the Library\/Internet Plug-Ins<\/em> directory under your home directory<\/em>. restart Safari, and off you go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite Ian's self-depricating style I think what he and Chuck are doing is amazing.  And it shows what can and will be done.  Meanwhile, Apple People, download Ian's plugin and leave comments on my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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