[whatwg] CORS requests for image and video elements

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Thu May 19 02:21:34 PDT 2011


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
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