Federated Credentials Management (was WebID)

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Origin trial (Chrome 108)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

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

WPT details: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/credential-management

Summary

The Federated Credential Management API allows users to bring their federated identity to login to websites in a manner compatible with improvements to browser privacy.

Motivation

https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM

Standards & signals

Specification: https://fedidcg.github.io/FedCM
Firefox: In development — Mozilla started to implement FedCM.
Safari: Positive
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1067455

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=credential-management
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+Federated%20Credentials%20Management%20(was%20WebID)
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Federated%20Credentials%20Management%20(was%20WebID)
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Federated%20Credentials%20Management%20(was%20WebID)

Docs: https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM

Explainers: https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM

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