[OSM-dev] Slim layout for oauth authorization flow

[Andy Allan]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> Well as I said to you in the pub last week there are definitely some issues
> with the implementation - it's more invasive than I think it probably needs
> to be. That can all be sorted out though.

Yeah, I remember you saying that the implementation needed work, you
needing to look at it more and you weren't really sure if the overall
goal was worth it, but having things written down in email helps me
tackle it better.

> More importantly, I don't actually think it looks very good - in fact
> aesthetically I think it looks worse than what we have now and that's quite
> an achievement ;-)

Do I win a prize then? Which bits don't look good - just the logo or
the rearranging of the login page?

>> OK, this is something I'd still like to see happening, but I'd like
>> some more feedback if anyone has some. To help do that I've put some
>> screenshots up of what things look like at
>>
>> http://gravitystorm.dev.openstreetmap.org/slim1/
>
> Those have, of course, been done with what might charitably be described as
> an unusually sized browser window... What I see is something more like this:
>
> http://tomh.dev.openstreetmap.org/slimoauth/
>
> The second one in particular is horrible because of the long line of text
> pushing right across the page.

Indeed, but it's not all that different a situation to what we have
now. I'd be happy to put some max-widths on these divs to try and stop
the super-long lines of text, if that's going to be acceptable? We
don't use max-widths in this way elsewhere in the site so I was
slightly hesitant to start.

> The logo stuck on it's own at the top just looks really odd as well.

I was going to use the wider version of the logo (the one with the
word openstreetmap in it) but I couldn't find a copy. I'll have a play
around with making things look a bit more like the normal logo and see
if anything works well, but it's supposed to be minimalist.

> I'm also rather concerned that it looks too different to OSM when a major
> point of OAuth is for people to wind up at a site they recognise as being
> OSM when they are authenticating.

On the other hand, if it looks the same and has all the same link-junk
around it, then it loses the point of doing it. I'm not certain but I
think most sites oauth pages look significantly different from their
normal pages, but I need to gather some evidence for that before I
expound it further.

Of course, if the "looks different from the normal layout" becomes a
showstopper then I'll leave the idea alone - it's just an demo of an
idea as it stands.

>> Also, is it possible for me to set up a copy of this branch on the dev
>> server (e.g. slim1.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org) - so that other people
>> (e.g. app designers) can comment without having to install the whole
>> kaboodle?
>
> Done, at http://slimoauth.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/.

Thank you!

Cheers,
Andy