FedCM—Support showing third-party iframe origins in the UI

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Proposed (Chrome Proposed)
Intent stage: None

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Chromium flag: FedCmIframeOrigin
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: https://wpt.fyi/results/fedcm/third-party-iframe?label=experimental&label=master

Summary

Currently, FedCM always shows the toplevel site in its UI. This works well when the iframe is conceptually first-party (e.g. foo.com may have an iframe foostatic.com, which is not meaningful to the user). But if the iframe is actually third-party, it would be better to make it possible to show the iframe origin in the UI so that the user better understands who they are sharing their credentials with. For example, a photo editor may be embedded in a book publishing web app and may want to let users access files they have previously stored with the photo editor. This proposal allows doing so.

Motivation

See https://github.com/w3c-fedid/FedCM/issues/725 for more discussion on the motivation

Standards & signals

Specification: https://github.com/w3c-fedid/FedCM/pull/774
Firefox: No signal — For incremental improvements to FedCM, Firefox has asked us not to file standards position, and they will instead provide feedback in the GitHub PR.. Firefox engineer "not willing to block this", https://github.com/w3c-fedid/FedCM/issues/725#issuecomment-3189376203
Safari: No signal — Safari is not implementing FedCM in general. They have closed other position requests for specific FedCM additions as duplicates of the general FedCM position request, e.g. https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/120#issuecomment-1914040695
Web developers: Positive — This was requested by web developer partners. Our partners have tried out the Chrome implementation behind a flag and found it to match their expectations.
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/390581529

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=fedcm%2Fthird-party-iframe
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+FedCM%E2%80%94Support%20showing%20third-party%20iframe%20origins%20in%20the%20UI
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=FedCM%E2%80%94Support%20showing%20third-party%20iframe%20origins%20in%20the%20UI
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=FedCM%E2%80%94Support%20showing%20third-party%20iframe%20origins%20in%20the%20UI

Explainers: https://github.com/w3c-fedid/FedCM/issues/449#issuecomment-1515631336

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