feature: Fetch API status: use tags: polyfill kind: api polyfillurls: fetch moreurl: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/introduction-to-fetch
The Fetch API is a replacement for the XMLHttpRequest object. It's relatively new and the browser support isn't great at the moment, but GitHub provides a nice polyfill that supports IE9+.
The API is accessible via the global window.fetch function.