| RE: [higgins-dev] Proposed "intro text" at the top of the Higgins page |
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Tom,
Thanks very much. And thank you for your continued
excellent input.
I really appreciate all the feedback and suggestions people
are providing. That is what it takes to continue to evolve and polish the
site.
The home page now has the new intro text. I further
softened the second line by inserting a "can". We will see how it
works. The next step is further evolving the "tip of the iceberg"
part. Keep your suggestions coming.
-Mary From: higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Carroll Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:56 AM To: Higgins (Trust Framework) Project developer discussions Subject: RE: [higgins-dev] Proposed "intro text" at the top of the Higgins page Couldn't anything in
Higgins be considered 'optional', depending on the particular
application?
More to the point is that
while there may be a bit of stuff in Higgins that is not specific to I-Cards,
for end users, the only way that they directly experience Higgins is through
I-Cards. Higgins components could be cooked into some other third-party
applications that don't deal with I-cards, but I'm not aware of *any* end-user
applications in Higgins that are not specifically and solely focused on I-Cards.
If there are any, I couldn't find them on the Solutions page, which does list
three different I-Card selectors, an I-Card issuing IdP, and an I-Card accepting
RP. I also seem to remember some IBM skunk-works project that built an I-Card
selector for Android. :)
So better than redundantly describing
I-Cards as 'optional', they should be described as the end-user part of Higgins,
which then provides context for the next paragraph of text next. So
the introductory text could be something like:
Higgins is an framework that enables
users and applications to integrate identity, profile, and relationship
information across multiple data sources and protocols. End-users experience
Higgins through the UI metaphor of Information Cards.
Information Cards (aka InfoCards or I-Cards) put you in control...
BTW - Kudos to Mary for her herculean
effort coordinating this - the site looks fabulous! Finally rid of all that
"purple stuff"!
=Thomas.Carroll From: higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Trevithick [paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:20 AM To: higgins-dev Subject: Re: [higgins-dev] Proposed "intro text" at the top of the Higgins page Agree that the
i-cards is just an (optional) part of the whole framework. Oddly, that’s the
point I was trying to make in that sentence. I also thought that we needed that
sentence to create a bridge to the i-card content section below. In any case it
didn’t work, so here’s a second try (change shown in bold):
Higgins is an framework that enables users and applications to integrate identity, profile, and relationship information across multiple data sources and protocols. One, optional part is an Identity Selector app that helps you manage your identities as a set of visual Information Cards. |