- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 16:45:54 +0200
- To: "Hallvord R. M. Steen" <hallvord@opera.com>
- Cc: Julian Aubourg <j@ubourg.net>, Jungkee Song <jungkee.song@samsung.com>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Hallvord R. M. Steen <hallvord@opera.com> wrote: > However, if you consider the CORS angle you'll see that scripts out there > are already being written to interact with another site's backend, and such > scripts may face the same challenges as a user script or extension using XHR > including backend sniffing. That's why experience from user.js development > is now relevant for general web tech, and why I'm making this argument. If you consider CORS you also need to consider that if we allow developers to set user-agent a preflight request would be required for that header (and the server would need to allow it to be custom). So it's not quite that simple and would not actually help. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
Received on Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:46:21 UTC