[whatwg] CORS requests for image and video elements

Simon Pieters simonp at opera.com
Thu May 19 02:35:57 PDT 2011


On Thu, 19 May 2011 11:21:34 +0200, Robert O'Callahan  
<robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
>> This is only a first draft, I'm not sure it's perfect. In particular,
>> right now cross-origin media is not allowed at all without this  
>> attribute
>> (this is not a new change, but I'm not sure it's what implementations  
>> do).
>>
>
> What exactly do you mean by "cross-origin media is not allowed at all"? I
> hope you mean "CORS is not used at all", since obviously image and media
> elements are allowed to load resources cross-origin today, and changing  
> that
> would break the Web.
>
> Rob

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12681

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Simon Pieters
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