Comment by aidenn0
3 months ago
I used XSLT once to publish recipes on the web. The cookbook software my mom used (maybe MasterCook?) could "export as xml" and I wrote an xslt to transform it into readable html. It was fine. It's, of course, also possible to run the XSLT from the command line to generate static html.
The suggestion of using a polyfill is a bit nonsensical as I suspect there is little new web being written in XSLT, so someone would have to go through all the old pages out there and add the polyfill. Anyone know if accomplishing XSLT is possible with a Chrome extension? That would make more sense.
It would sure be possible to combine a polyfill with a webextension, not sure if XSLT contains any footguns for this approach that would make it hard to do, but if it's solely a single client-side transformation of the initial XML response, this should work fine.
Cool example with the recipes page :)
I guess it's time for me to write that webextension; if it gets popular enough I can sell it to someone wearing a black hat for maybe tens of dollars!
haha good point :(
There are also very valid comments in there about why removal would still hurt existing sites and applications, especially for embedded devices.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563#issuecomment-31970...