In the web development world CORS is as common an acronym as REST or TCP. I sympathise with the endless need to look up acronyms but in my view anyone involved enough with web to need the above advice would (or should) know the acronym.

I do appreciate your point of view, but inclusiveness shouldn't come at the cost of brevity when those who would be included wouldn't benefit from it.

Brevity? It's a 1,500+ word article.

Downvotes for a comment like this is really the low-side of Hacker News.

Me: web developer since 1996. I had to look it up. Came here to make the same comment, and see you being lambasted for it.

Don't let these haterz get you down. It's standard practice across ALL domains to define acronyms, and those who give this article a pass because ReASonS!! aren't people I'd willingly choose to work with: anglo-saxons who believe the whole world shares their lived experience, and their mental model.

Hacker news is just horrible for that attitude. Accessibility is a thing.

Yeah, thanks for the support.

I guess I need to work on my tone, less snark more helpful. It's a bit comforting at least that people like you exist, who are web developers but still didn't know this one. :)

I guess the passive-aggressive tone was what triggered the downvotes.

If instead this said something like: "For the uninitiated, CORS stands for ...", I don't think it would've attracted any downvotes.

as far as acronyms go this is a pretty common one that a hacker news crowd should know without spelling out. shrug