Pavatar and Gravatar

Jargong will support both Pavatar and Gravatar standards.

Pavatar:
When you register at Jargong with an OpenID we´ll automatically fetch your avatar from your OpenID provider in the following ways:

1. We investigate if there´s X-Pavatar: header.
2. If there´s any link rel="avatar" or link rel="pavatar" in your html.
3. If we can find an avatar at youropenid/avatar.jpg or youropenid/pavatar.jpg.

Gravatar:
If you haven´t uploaded an avatar to your Jargong account we´ll check if you have any Gravatar associated with your email address and use that before we use the default avatar.

Jargong and OpenID

We´re happy to let you know that the upcoming version of Jargong is supporting OpenID.

OpenID is an identity technology that let you sign into different sites with a single name and password. It makes surfing the web more simple and secure for you.

If you want to implement OpenID on your site (which ofcourse is a good idea) here is my two cents:

1) Be a consumer. Don´t even think about being a provider before you implemented the consumer part. - OpenID needs more consumers not providers.
If you want to be a provider later that´s fine but start with letting everyone with an existing OpenID sign on first.
The last thing OpenID needs is a another provider that doesn´t support sign on with existing OpenIds (Hello Yahoo and all you others..).

2) Don´t do it the wrong way and only support a few "secure" providers (Hello Microsoft..) the open in OpenID means you should support every provider.
We don´t want to end up with having multiple OpenIDs for different accounts and sites.