Twitter oauth authorization in a pop-up instead of in main browser window

Posted by niyogi on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by niyogi
Published on 2010-05-02T20:35:11Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 20:37 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 700

Filed under:
|
|

I feel incredibly stupid for even asking this since the answer might already be under my nose but here it goes:

TweetMeme has a Re-tweet twitter widget that publishers can place on their blogs. When a user clicks on the widget, it pops open a window which allows the user to authenticate themselves with twitter and then re-tweet.

This seems to use some special Twitter oauth popup form factor - unless there is something fancier happening under the surface to authenticate the user.

The pop-up window looks like this:

http://twitpic.com/1kepcr

I'd rather handle an authentication via a pop-up rather than send the user to a brand new page (for the app I'm working on) and they seem to have the most graceful solution. Thoughts on how they did this?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about twitter

Related posts about oauth