diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 924a454..5da3b14 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@
 [cover]: https://img.shields.io/coveralls/unshiftio/requests/master.svg?style=flat-square
 [irc]: https://img.shields.io/badge/IRC-irc.freenode.net%23unshift-00a8ff.svg?style=flat-square
 
-Requests is a small library that implements fully and true streaming XHR for
-browsers that support these methods. It uses a variety of proprietary
+Requests is a small library that fully implements true streaming XHR for
+Node.js and browsers that support these methods. It uses a variety of proprietary
 `responseType` properties to force a streaming connection, even for binary data.
 For browsers that don't support this we will simply fallback to a regular but
 **async** XHR 1/2 request or ActiveXObject in even older deprecated browsers.
 
+- Chrome: `ReadableByteStream`
 - Internet Explorer >= 10: `ms-stream`
 - FireFox >= 9: `moz-chunked`
 - FireFox < 20: `multipart`
diff --git a/browser.js b/browser.js
index 0d84cc7..54b1a8a 100644
--- a/browser.js
+++ b/browser.js
@@ -1,11 +1,28 @@
 'use strict';
 
-var Requested = require('./requested')
+var FetchWrapper = require('./fetch-wrapper.js')
+  , Requested = require('./requested')
   , listeners = require('loads')
   , send = require('xhr-send')
+  , sameOrigin = require('same-origin')
   , hang = require('hang')
   , AXO = require('axo');
 
+/**
+ * Root reference for iframes.
+ * Taken from
+ * https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/blob/83892f35fe15676a4567a0eb51eecd096939ad36/lib/client.js#L1
+ */
+var root;
+if (typeof window !== 'undefined') { // Browser window
+  root = window;
+} else if (typeof self !== 'undefined') { // Web Worker
+  root = self;
+} else { // Other environments
+  console.warn('Using browser-only version of requests in non-browser environment');
+  root = this;
+}
+
 /**
  * RequestS(tream).
  *
@@ -19,7 +36,7 @@ var Requested = require('./requested')
  *
  * @constructor
  * @param {String} url The URL we want to request.
- * @param {Object} options Various of request options.
+ * @param {Object} options Various request options.
  * @api public
  */
 var Requests = module.exports = Requested.extend({
@@ -64,15 +81,17 @@ var Requests = module.exports = Requested.extend({
   /**
    * Initialize and start requesting the supplied resource.
    *
-   * @param {Object} options Passed in defaults.
+   * @param {String} url The URL we want to request.
+   * @param {Object} options Various request options.
    * @api private
    */
-  open: function open() {
+  open: function open(url, options) {
     var what
-      , slice = true
       , requests = this
       , socket = requests.socket;
 
+    var slice = (requests.hasOwnProperty('slice')) ? requests.slice : true;
+
     requests.on('stream', function stream(data) {
       if (!slice) {
         return requests.emit('data', data);
@@ -94,15 +113,46 @@ var Requests = module.exports = Requested.extend({
     });
 
     if (this.timeout) {
+      // NOTE the "+" before this.timeout just ensures
+      // socket.timeout is a number.
       socket.timeout = +this.timeout;
     }
 
-    if ('cors' === this.mode.toLowerCase() && 'withCredentials' in socket) {
-      socket.withCredentials = true;
+    // Polyfilling XMLHttpRequest to accept fetch options
+    // see https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#cors-protocol-and-credentials and
+    // https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-request-credentials-mode
+    //
+    // ...credentials mode, which is "omit", "same-origin", or "include".
+    // Unless stated otherwise, it is "omit".
+    //
+    // When request's mode is "navigate", its credentials mode is assumed to
+    // be "include" and fetch does not currently account for other values.
+    // If HTML changes here, this standard will need corresponding changes.
+    if ('withCredentials' in socket) {
+      var credentials = this.credentials;
+      if (credentials) {
+        credentials = credentials.toLowerCase();
+      } else if (this.mode) {
+        var mode = this.mode.toLowerCase();
+        if (mode === 'navigate') {
+          credentials = 'include';
+        }
+      }
+
+      if (credentials) {
+        if (credentials === 'include') {
+          socket.withCredentials = true;
+        } else {
+          var origin = root.location.origin || (root.location.protocol + '//' + root.location.host);
+          if (credentials === 'same-origin' && sameOrigin(origin, url)) {
+            socket.withCredentials = true;
+          }
+        }
+      }
     }
 
     //
-    // ActiveXObject will throw an `Type Mismatch` exception when setting the to
+    // ActiveXObject will throw a `Type Mismatch` exception when setting the to
     // an null-value and to be consistent with all XHR implementations we're going
     // to cast the value to a string.
     //
@@ -116,15 +166,16 @@ var Requests = module.exports = Requested.extend({
     // already eliminates duplicate headers.
     //
     for (what in this.headers) {
-      if (this.headers[what] !== undefined && this.socket.setRequestHeader) {
-        this.socket.setRequestHeader(what, this.headers[what] +'');
+      if (this.headers[what] !== undefined && socket.setRequestHeader) {
+        socket.setRequestHeader(what, this.headers[what] + '');
       }
     }
 
     //
     // Set the correct responseType method.
     //
-    if (requests.streaming) {
+    // TODO how should fetch/ReadableByteStream be handled here?
+    if (requests.streaming && (requests.method !== 'FETCH')) {
       if (!this.body || 'string' === typeof this.body) {
         if ('multipart' in socket) {
           socket.multipart = true;
@@ -142,17 +193,37 @@ var Requests = module.exports = Requested.extend({
       }
     }
 
+    // Polyfill XMLHttpRequest to use the fetch headers API
+    var fetchOrFake = {}
+    if (requests.method !== 'FETCH') {
+      // fetchOrFake is fake
+      fetchOrFake.response = {
+        headers: {
+          get: socket.getResponseHeader
+        }
+      };
+      fetchOrFake.request = socket.request || {};
+      // TODO this is just a start
+    } else {
+      // fetchOrFake is real fetch
+      fetchOrFake = socket;
+    }
+    
     listeners(socket, requests, requests.streaming);
-    requests.emit('before', socket);
 
-    send(socket, this.body, hang(function send(err) {
-      if (err) {
-        requests.emit('error', err);
-        requests.emit('end', err);
-      }
+    requests.emit('before', fetchOrFake);
+
+    if (requests.method !== 'FETCH') {
+      send(socket, this.body, hang(function send(err) {
+        if (err) {
+          requests.emit('error', err);
+          requests.emit('end', err);
+        }
 
-      requests.emit('send');
-    }));
+        // NOTE the send event for fetch is in fetch-wrapper.js
+        requests.emit('send');
+      }));
+    }
   },
 
   /**
@@ -179,6 +250,20 @@ var Requests = module.exports = Requested.extend({
   }
 });
 
+/**
+ * Create a new FetchWrapper.
+ *
+ * @returns {FetchWrapper}
+ * @type {Object} requests
+ * @api private
+ */
+Requests.FETCH = function create(requests) {
+  // TODO we need to pass the requests object to FetchWrapper,
+  // This seems kludgy because it's not parallel with Requests.XHR and Requests.AXO.
+  requests.slice = false;
+  return new FetchWrapper(requests); 
+};
+
 /**
  * Create a new XMLHttpRequest.
  *
@@ -229,7 +314,11 @@ Requests.active = {};
  * @type {String}
  * @public
  */
-Requests.method = !!Requests.XHR() ? 'XHR' : (!!Requests.AXO() ? 'AXO' : '');
+if (typeof root.ReadableByteStream === 'function') {
+  Requests.method = 'FETCH';
+} else {
+  Requests.method = !!Requests.XHR() ? 'XHR' : (!!Requests.AXO() ? 'AXO' : '');
+}
 
 /**
  * Boolean indicating
@@ -240,13 +329,13 @@ Requests.method = !!Requests.XHR() ? 'XHR' : (!!Requests.AXO() ? 'AXO' : '');
 Requests.supported = !!Requests.method;
 
 /**
- * The different type of `responseType` parsers that are supported in this XHR
+ * The different types of `responseType` parsers that are supported in this XHR
  * implementation.
  *
  * @type {Object}
  * @public
  */
-Requests.type = 'XHR' === Requests.method ? (function detect() {
+Requests.type = ('XHR' === Requests.method) ? (function detect() {
   var types = 'arraybuffer,blob,document,json,text,moz-blob,moz-chunked-text,moz-chunked-arraybuffer,ms-stream'.split(',')
     , supported = {}
     , type, xhr, prop;
@@ -282,13 +371,16 @@ Requests.type = 'XHR' === Requests.method ? (function detect() {
  * @type {Boolean}
  * @private
  */
-Requests.streaming = 'XHR' === Requests.method && (
-     'multipart' in XMLHttpRequest.prototype
-  || Requests.type.mozchunkedarraybuffer
-  || Requests.type.mozchunkedtext
-  || Requests.type.msstream
-  || Requests.type.mozblob
-);
+Requests.streaming = (Requests.method === 'FETCH') ||
+  (
+    (Requests.method === 'XHR') && (
+      'multipart' in XMLHttpRequest.prototype ||
+      Requests.type.mozchunkedarraybuffer ||
+      Requests.type.mozchunkedtext ||
+      Requests.type.msstream ||
+      Requests.type.mozblob
+    )
+  );
 
 //
 // IE has a bug which causes IE10 to freeze when close WebPage during an XHR
@@ -296,6 +388,7 @@ Requests.streaming = 'XHR' === Requests.method && (
 //
 // The solution is to completely clean up all active running requests.
 //
+// TODO global vs. root? do we need both?
 if (global.attachEvent) global.attachEvent('onunload', function reap() {
   for (var id in Requests.active) {
     Requests.active[id].destroy();
diff --git a/fetch-wrapper.js b/fetch-wrapper.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8071b1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fetch-wrapper.js
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+// From https://github.com/jonnyreeves/chunked-request/blob/4dd6b7568e79a920f6cab3cd4d91d1e8d30b0798/src/impl/fetch.js
+
+//var Requested = require('./requested');
+function FetchWrapper(requests) {
+  var fetchWrapper = this;
+  fetchWrapper.requests = requests;
+
+  var headers = requests.headers;
+  var mode = requests.mode;
+  var body = requests.body;
+  var credentials = requests.credentials;
+
+  var decoder = new TextDecoder();
+  fetchWrapper.decoder = decoder;
+
+  fetchWrapper.fetchOptions = {
+    headers: headers,
+    mode: mode,
+    body: body,
+    credentials: credentials
+  };  
+}
+
+FetchWrapper.prototype.onError = function(err) {
+  var fetchWrapper = this;
+  console.error(err.message);
+  console.error(err.stack);
+  //fetchWrapper.requests.emit('error', err);
+}
+
+FetchWrapper.prototype.pump = function(reader, res) {
+  var fetchWrapper = this;
+  return reader.read()
+    .then(function(result) {
+      if (result.done) {
+        fetchWrapper.requests.emit('end');
+        // NOTE: when result.done = true, result.value will always be null
+        return;
+      }
+      fetchWrapper.requests.emit('stream', fetchWrapper.decoder.decode(result.value));
+      return fetchWrapper.pump(reader, res);
+    }, function(err) {
+      fetchWrapper.requests.emit('error', err);
+    });
+}
+
+// TODO is the third arg supposed to be "streaming"?
+FetchWrapper.prototype.open = function(method, url, streaming) {
+  var fetchWrapper = this;
+  fetch(url, fetchWrapper.fetchOptions)
+    .then(function(res) {
+      fetchWrapper.response = res;
+      fetchWrapper.requests.emit('send', fetchWrapper);
+      return fetchWrapper.pump(res.body.getReader(), res)
+    })
+    .catch(fetchWrapper.onError);
+}
+
+module.exports = FetchWrapper;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9435a20..2f0d671 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "requests",
   "version": "0.1.7",
-  "description": "An streaming XHR abstraction that works in browsers and node.js",
+  "description": "A streaming XHR abstraction that works in browsers and node.js",
   "main": "index.js",
   "browser": "browser.js",
   "scripts": {
@@ -43,11 +43,12 @@
     "extendible": "0.1.x",
     "hang": "1.0.x",
     "loads": "0.0.x",
+    "same-origin": "^0.1.1",
     "xhr-send": "1.0.x"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "argh": "0.1.x",
-    "assume": "1.3.x",
+    "assume": "1.4.x",
     "async-each": "0.1.x",
     "browserify": "11.x.x",
     "http-proxy": "1.11.x",
diff --git a/requested.js b/requested.js
index 7cf1b60..b4ea081 100644
--- a/requested.js
+++ b/requested.js
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ function Requested(url, options) {
   this.writable = false;
 
   if (this.initialize) this.initialize(url);
-  if (!this.manual && this.open) this.open(url);
+  // TODO AR changed what is passed in to this.open().
+  // But what was happening did not match the
+  // documentation for this.open anyway.
+  if (!this.manual && this.open) this.open(url, options);
 }
 
 Requested.extend = require('extendible');
@@ -70,7 +73,7 @@ Requested.prototype.merge = function merge(target) {
 
 /**
  * The defaults for the Requests. These values will be used if no options object
- * or matching key is provided. It can be override globally if needed but this
+ * or matching key is provided. It can be overriden globally if needed, but this
  * is not advised as it can have some potential side affects for other libraries
  * that use this module.
  *
@@ -81,7 +84,8 @@ Requested.defaults = {
   streaming: false,
   manual: false,
   method: 'GET',
-  mode: 'cors',
+  // A request has an associated mode, which is "same-origin", "cors", "no-cors", "navigate",
+  // or "websocket". Unless stated otherwise, it is "no-cors".
   headers: {
     //
     // We're forcing text/plain mode by default to ensure that regular
diff --git a/test/index.js b/test/index.js
index fbe6854..994a5a3 100644
--- a/test/index.js
+++ b/test/index.js
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ kill.hooks = [];
       wd: argv.wd,
       ui: argv.ui
     })
+    .on('error', console.error)
     .bundle(next);
   }
 ]);