[whatwg] [html5] r7128 - [giow] (2) Try to define img synchronous loading. Affected topics: HTML

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Simon Pieters wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:09:22 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> > On 6/13/12 4:55 AM, Simon Pieters wrote:
> > > If it redirects, it switches to CORS. However, there are some bugs 
> > > in the spec... I just filed 
> > > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17478 now.
> > 
> > Can we push this whole algorithm down into the CORS spec?  It looks 
> > like at this point fetching-resources.html and the XHR spec are both 
> > trying to define the same algorithm (no CORS for same-origin, check 
> > origin on redirect, switch to CORS as needed, etc), and it would be 
> > pretty nice if they ended up actually defining it the same way.  
> > Simplest way to do that is to define it in the CORS spec and just 
> > reference it in the others, I'd think.
> 
> Yeah or maybe even merge this algorithm, the fetch algorithm, and the 
> cross-origin request algorithms. Currently it's extremely hard to 
> follow.

Anne and I plan to do so at some point but doing so would be a lot of work 
and we both have bigger fish to fry right now.

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