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wmf on Oct 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Mozilla Persona is the right answer to the que...

You lost at "browser plugins". Persona uses a JS shim that requires no plugins or browser changes.

pgeorgi on Oct 1, 2012 [–]

CardSpace was 2003ish.. "browser plugins" were the standard option for all kind of things, while JS shims merely provided <blink> on non-MS browsers.

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