OpenID for Everyone - Plus a Little Niggle
Late last night the Buzz announced that OpenID commenting has been pushed out of Blogger in Draft and now is available to everyone. You can see my previous post on using OpenID on Blogger, with tips on how to delegate any url you want to use or also the Buzz recommends Sam Ruby's article on OpenID delegation article as well.
One of the additional changes pushed out with this, is now on your blog posts when the comments are displayed an icon will appear next to the author name (if it includes a url) to denote whether it is a Blogger account, OpenID authenticated, or for older comments that have a url but aren't authenticated an "anonymous" icon. Most layout enabled templates should get these updates automatically, but if you have a highly customized post widget you may not. I had to tweak mine for instance using the new data:comment.authorClass data tag it uses. I may cover how to do that as well for those that need to, but it's late (or too early).
One bugaboo I've noticed is for those using the old style Classic Templates. Here's an example from the great A Consuming Experience
Problem is on the classic templates, they are currently writing out the icons source with a relative path instead of the complete path to the icon image on Blogger, so the icons fail to load and only show their alt text. We presume that will get ironed out.
Update The niggle now has it's own Known Issue for the icons on Classic Templates. Update Later today, it's now marked as fixed. Quick turnaround.
One of the additional changes pushed out with this, is now on your blog posts when the comments are displayed an icon will appear next to the author name (if it includes a url) to denote whether it is a Blogger account, OpenID authenticated, or for older comments that have a url but aren't authenticated an "anonymous" icon. Most layout enabled templates should get these updates automatically, but if you have a highly customized post widget you may not. I had to tweak mine for instance using the new data:comment.authorClass data tag it uses. I may cover how to do that as well for those that need to, but it's late (or too early).
One bugaboo I've noticed is for those using the old style Classic Templates. Here's an example from the great A Consuming Experience
Update The niggle now has it's own Known Issue for the icons on Classic Templates. Update Later today, it's now marked as fixed. Quick turnaround.
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