Even more interesting than the tech itself, I find more interesting the debate around the role of that new API. To some (prominent) JS people, this is mostly syntactic sugar and they wonder if it’s the time of W3C to go up the stack and make assumptions on the implementers behalf.
After all haven’t we had wrappers around XHR for a long time?
I have not made my mind but that’s a debate worth having IMO.
I have mixed feelings about purely syntactic sugar changes. I’m definitely in favor in the cases where real improvements can be made.
4 replies on “The Basics of fetch()”
Nice. Just need http://caniuse.com/#feat=fetch to look better now 🙂
Yep. For now we’ve got a fetch polyfill.
Even more interesting than the tech itself, I find more interesting the debate around the role of that new API. To some (prominent) JS people, this is mostly syntactic sugar and they wonder if it’s the time of W3C to go up the stack and make assumptions on the implementers behalf.
After all haven’t we had wrappers around XHR for a long time?
I have not made my mind but that’s a debate worth having IMO.
I have mixed feelings about purely syntactic sugar changes. I’m definitely in favor in the cases where real improvements can be made.