Comment by ajxs

Being interested in archaic technologies, I built a website using XML/XSLT not that long ago. The site was an archive of a band I was in, which made it fundamentally data oriented: We recorded multiple albums, with different tracks, and a different lineup of musicians each time. There's lots of different databases I could built a static site generator around, but what if the browser could render the page straight from the data? That's what's cool about XML/XSLT. On paper, I think it's actually a pretty nice idea: The browser starts by loading the actual data, and then renders it into HTML according to a specific stylesheet. Obviously the history of browser tech forked in a different direction, but the idea remains good. What if there was native browser support for styling JSON into HTML?