I decided to try and document what was happening when trying to use CardSpace
in FireFox with the java extension. So I set everything up and started capturing
screens. What you know, now it works. The only thing I didn’t like was that it
doesn’t use the same set of infocards that IE does. What is that about?
It worked though. I just had to create more infocards. Confusing and
shouldn’t be necessary.
tags: firefox, cardspace, extensions
update:
Hey Craig…
My Firefox selector is a clean room implementation of Cardspace. There
is absolutely no MSFT Cardspace or .net code used in the Firefox
Selector. As a result, it doesn’t have access to your regular Cardspace
cards, as on many platforms (like the Mac it was written on) there
simply isn’t any Cardspace code or client to integrate with.
For Firefox on Windows, I think it likely would make more sence to call
out to the native Cardspace implementation. That could be done, but it
wasn’t what I was trying to achieve. The xmldap code is really about
taking cardspace to other platforms. The firefox selector works on OSX,
Linux, Windows, etc. It’s also been taken to Safari by my good friend
Ian: http://www.hccp.org/safari-plug-in.html
Hope this makes sense, and I’m glad you got it working.