24031 2013-12-08 23:55:43 +0000 Explain first occurrence of “CORS” (not everybody knows it stands for “cross-origin resource sharing”) 2016-01-24 05:54:45 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#cors-settings-attributes blocked on dependencies P3 normal Unsorted 24080 1 contributor ian annevk d ian jens mike contributor oldest_to_newest 97297 0 contributor 2013-12-08 23:55:43 +0000 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”) Posted from: 190.238.44.131 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36 97937 1 ian 2014-01-02 20:50:56 +0000 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.) 97955 2 jens 2014-01-02 23:16:11 +0000 I suggest to just expand it on the first occurrence—“CORS (cross-origin resource sharing)”. 106797 3 annevk 2014-05-26 13:22:20 +0000 I just noticed http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/ uses it as a term of art rather than an abbreviation. 124697 4 d 2016-01-24 05:54:45 +0000 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.