- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:48:11 -0800
- To: "Thomas Roessler" <tlr@w3.org>
- Cc: "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "WebApps WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org> wrote: > > On 13 Jan 2009, at 09:58, Doug Schepers wrote: >>> >>> Since it can be about more than just data, e.g. images, "Cross-Origin >>> Resource Sharing" might be more appropriate. Keeping the header names >>> the same seems fine, they're just opague strings, but at least making it >>> more clear what the specification is about might help people. > >> Cross-Origin Resource Sharing seems like a pretty good name to me. >> Cross-Origin Resource and Permissions Sharing Exchange is a funnier >> acronym, but that might not be the best criteria for name selection. I >> think that images are just another kind of data, but "resource" is >> probably more evocative of a range of data types. > > I'd be very happy to see this spec's name changed to something that doesn't > confuse people. I don't care much either way. If it confuses it seems like a good idea to rename it. / Jonas
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