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> Either way, I’m hoping PayPal, Google and everyone else follows suit, because buying something online should be frictionless by now.

This aesthetic choice doesn't seem to change the friction much. We're still typing in 16-digit codes by hand.

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Paying with Amazon is mostly frictionless for me. If I remember correctly from my purchase on louisck.net on Sunday, it was click to get to Amazon login page, click to login to Amazon account, click to use card ending in 9432, click to confirm.

And, correct me if I'm wrong, they've been delivering that level of convenience for many years and without any need for iframes.

All due respect for Stripe, iframes are a potential security hole waiting to happen. iframes open many possibilities for exploits. I doubt we've seen all of them yet.

Um, Amazon handles credit cards for their sales. Stripe is for the the thousands of sites that don't.

But Amazon is also for those thousands of sites.

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/asp

Neither PayPal nor Google require you type in your CC number at point of sale.

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