Comment by ndriscoll
3 months ago
It's by far the easiest way to do templated pages. I use it for my personal stuff (e.g. photo albums I share with my mom), but I can't imagine Google cares about the non-commercial web.
I think I've read some governments still use it, which would make sense since they usually don't have a super high budget for tons of developers, so they have to stick to the easy way to do things.
Right, that sounds like a blind spot of mine as well. We test nearly only commercial products (or open source projects large enough to get commercial backing), and in private time, of course I'd come across big websites sooner than across small ones. Still, I'm surprised I never even heard of it (also considering we literally had a class on XML and the features, like these DTDs that I never found a use for in the decade since). Sounds like I should look into XSLT, since I also build a lot of small tools and simple old tech is generally right up my alley!