I added a comment to the talk page.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Akshay.agarwal
Long story short, we had this discussion in IRC... some people find the concept of AJAX login really alarming from a security perspective, but I think there could (COULD) be some ways to compromise there. There is a little-used concept called Digest Authentication that we could implement in Javascript.
On 3/25/11 11:41 AM, Akshay Agarwal wrote:
Hi, I am Akshay Agarwal, a third year CSE student& a freelance web developer. Please have a look at my GSoc Proposal http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Akshay.agarwal& suggest necessary changes.
Looking forward to your feedback,
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