On 09/08/15 10:51, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > There is https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25865 which is > about more formally defining eTLDs and perhaps even exposing an API. > However, it's unclear whether exposing an API is a good thing. eTLDs > are used for cookies, storage boundaries in certain browsers, and > document.domain. However, nobody is really pleased with that situation > and wishes everything used origins instead.
I think that might be a slightly hyperbolic use of "nobody"... Origins mean "exactly the same host and port", right? If I were the owner of a large website or group of websites which shared state or a login, I would not be excited about the idea of having to present that group of websites to the world as if they were served off a single DNS name. Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
