732: Thomas Steiner on New Cross-Origin Storage APIs
We're joined by Thomas Steiner from Google to discuss his proposal for cross-origin storage, a new web API designed to bring back safe, cross-site resource sharing. We explore why the old shared-CDN caching model collapsed due to privacy and fingerprinting risks, and how this could solve those issues while avoiding those same pitfalls.
Time Jump Links
- 00:00:20 Welcome to Sloptalk Show
- 00:01:06 Introducing Thomas Steiner
- 00:03:52 Cross origin caching history
- 00:12:04 How can we improve caching on the web?
- 00:20:32 Ideas for integrations
- 00:24:07 Looking at what the spec calls for
- 00:30:16 Could it use a different model?
- 00:39:46 What's the popularity threshold?
- 00:46:17 What happens when features stall out for browsers?
- 00:49:25 What do we think is the likely outcome for this in 2 years?
- 00:54:35 Is this just for advertising?