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That depends on whether the Promise specification gets cancellations. I like fetch's clean API, but being able to cancel my ajax requests is essential.

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Cancel the requests, or cancel the callback chain that's set up to fire when they complete?

Essential? Why?

The big use-case I can think of is file uploads. If someone is uploading a large file, you wanna be able to cancel it.

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