As I don't know the entire schedule of our UX team, I can't. I would say less than a month and closer to a week by far, but please don't hold me to that.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 15:41, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 24, 5:05 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We're currently waiting on our User Experience team to put the final >> touches on a BETA release of ourOAuthsupport. It's going to have >> bugs, to be sure, but we should have it out there soon. >> > > Could you give us a time estimate? In a week? A month? > > Amir > >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:53, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On 24 Nov 2008, at 15:13, fastest963 wrote: >> >> >> A better alternative would be to just create an API key for >> >> every user. Instead of entering username/password, they would enter >> >> their secret API key? >> >> > This is far less secure thanOAuthand is actually not much better than >> > requiring a username and password. >> >> > One of the core benefits ofOAuthis the ability to be very specific >> > regarding what each authorised application is allowed to do, on a per >> > application basis. It also allows you to selectively revoke the permissions >> > of any specific application without needing to ask or even tell the >> > application about it. To do this with the API key system you effectively >> > need to re-authorise every app you use when you want to block just one of >> > them. No real difference between this and having to change your password. >> >> > I would much prefer that the guys (and gals) at Twitter concentrate on >> > gettingOAuthproperly implemented (which is harder than it sounds) than >> > their attention gets diverted by developers too impatient to wait for the >> > right solution to the problem. >> >> > -Stut >> >> > -- >> >http://stut.net/ >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
