See, theoretically, the number of people in (1) is very small. If you're browsing online and you don't have an OpenID of some sort then you're in a small minority.
The subset of people that know they've got an OpenID is, of course, tiny, but I think we need to do a lot more to promote the use of OpenIDs generally, not just on DW. An OpenID user can vote in polls, and specifically it would be good for some polls (the ones miss_s_b is currently running being a good example) to encourage external users to vote.
A clickable link to open the poll results is fine and part of the suggestion, so logged out users that want to see the results can do so (ideally, I'd like that link work through AJAX, but there's already a listed bug to make a lot of the polling system work with AJAX).
Most sites that accept OpenID logins are now moving to the point where people can use it without necessarily even knowing it's OpenID they're using; ideally I'd like us to get to that point, but the current poll display acts to exclude people that I think we should be trying to include.
no subject
The subset of people that know they've got an OpenID is, of course, tiny, but I think we need to do a lot more to promote the use of OpenIDs generally, not just on DW. An OpenID user can vote in polls, and specifically it would be good for some polls (the ones
A clickable link to open the poll results is fine and part of the suggestion, so logged out users that want to see the results can do so (ideally, I'd like that link work through AJAX, but there's already a listed bug to make a lot of the polling system work with AJAX).
Most sites that accept OpenID logins are now moving to the point where people can use it without necessarily even knowing it's OpenID they're using; ideally I'd like us to get to that point, but the current poll display acts to exclude people that I think we should be trying to include.