I can’t say enough about how great OpenID is from a developer and user perspective.  I hate having to remember lots of different passwords for websites, but the OpenID URL can be equally as hard to remember.  Most websites that use OpenID as a login use a Javascript selector so no one has to remember their OpenID URL.

We used OpenID login for one of our customer’s web application about a year ago.  At that time when we went through the process of evaluating OpenID selectors we went with openid-selector .  The status of openid-selector is the same place it stood a year ago, version 1.0 .  The project is dead.  Even though someone is trying to keep it going under a new name openid-realselector ,  there are no releases yet.

At this point I am still not interested in rolling my own so the search continued for a new OpenID selector.  The next project I came across was Open-selector .  One look at the UI and I knew it was not what I wanted.  I don’t like using a drop down to select the OpenID provider, moving on.

There is a commercial selector available, but I am definitely not interested in paying; especially since its on a subscription basis.

I found a selector created by Jarrett Vance called JQuery OpenID Plug-in .  This was exactly what I was looking for.  It uses images to select the OpenID provider and customizing the providers can all be done in the HTML without having to touch the Javascript.

Know of a better OpenID selector ?