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Bug 24031 - Explain first occurrence of “CORS” (not everybody knows it stands for “cross-origin resource sharing”)
Summary: Explain first occurrence of “CORS” (not everybody knows it stands for “cross-...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard: blocked on dependencies
Keywords:
Depends on: fetch
Blocks:
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Reported: 2013-12-08 23:55 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2016-01-24 05:54 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-12-08 23:55:43 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/fetching-resources.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#cors-settings-attributes
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#cors-settings-attributes
Referrer: 

Comment:
Explain first occurrence of “CORS” (not everybody knows it stands for
“cross-origin resource sharing”)

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-01-02 20:50:56 UTC 
What should the explanation say, exactly?

(Note that a lot of this text might be going away, deferring to fetch.spec.whatwg.org, relatively soon. So this might be moot.)
Comment 2 Jens O. Meiert 2014-01-02 23:16:11 UTC 
I suggest to just expand it on the first occurrence—“CORS (cross-origin resource sharing)”.
Comment 3 Anne 2014-05-26 13:22:20 UTC 
I just noticed http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/ uses it as a term of art rather than an abbreviation.
Comment 4 Domenic Denicola 2016-01-24 05:54:45 UTC 
I think CORS is sufficiently well-defined at this point; its first occurrence links to https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#http-cors-protocol which gives a pretty good explanation of what it's about. As Anne notes, the actual term "CORS" is used there as a term of art; if you think giving the de-abbreviation of "cross origin resource sharing" is important it's probably best to file a bug against Fetch to do so in the https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#http-cors-protocol section.