There are also open issues in the mastodon issue tracker.
It would be very nice if m. users and the other implementors would know about the opinions.
The last feature request is https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/10400
The use of CORS in alternate m. clients like Pinafore is partly documented, e.g.
see https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/
“Privacy is the key:
Thanks to the magic of CORS, Pinafore is an almost purely client-side web app”
Since the vast majority of people seem to use CORS (also e.g. peertube since 2.2.0 or pixelfed) and specs like remotestorage or SOLID make it mandatory:
Maybe I should write a comparison.
We will document CORS use for redaktor too.
As far as I remember, the author of geopub pukkamustard wanted to talk about CORS to, so maybe we can inform him when we documented.