Cancelling Requests with Abortable Fetch
This is a really good use-case for cancelling fetch requests: making API calls while autocompleting in search.
CORS
A thorough explanation of the history and inner workings of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing.
Like tales of a mythical sea beast, every developer has a story to tell about the day CORS seized upon one of their web requests, dragging it down into the inexorable depths, never to be seen again.
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Should The Web Expose Hardware Capabilities? — Smashing Magazine
This is a very thoughtful and measured response to Alex’s post Platform Adjacency Theory.
Unlike Alex, the author doesn’t fire off cheap shots.
Also, I’m really intrigued by the idea of certificate authorities for hardware APIs.
Service Worker Security FAQ - The Chromium Projects
Got questions about the security of service workers? This document probably has the answer.
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Upgrade paths
If you’re going to deprecate a feature on the web, at least give us an alternative.