Cross-site XMLHttpRequest: Boon or Pandora's Box

(Daniel Rubio) Browsers have established themselves as the IT community's ubiquitous client, even though some still consider their operation feeble for displaying large amounts of data. For better or worse, most applications now a days target the Web -- and with it browsers -- as a primary delivery medium. On a related front, software as a service has also come of age as a preferred design approach. So it is that when a technique influencing both world's emerges, it always serves for some interesting discussion on its potential implications, in this case what I am referring to is the use of Cross-Site XMLHttpRequest.
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