Comment by geocar
3 months ago
> [0] ~0.001% usage according to one post there
This is still a massive number of people who are going to be affected by this.
3 months ago
> [0] ~0.001% usage according to one post there
This is still a massive number of people who are going to be affected by this.
I get what you're saying, but following this line of reasoning would mean that successful, wide-spread specifications, standards, and technologies must never drop any features. They would only ever accumulate new features, bloating to the point of uselessness, and die under the weight of their own success.
> must never drop any features
On the web? That's about right. See Google's own document on this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RC-pBBvsazYfCNNUSkPqAVpS...
Nonsense. Following this line of reasoning is that putting percentages on billions is intellectually dishonest: You don't have to go any further than that. It is perhaps out of ignorance (now you know), but if you try to make it about anything else, that's just arguing in bad-faith.
Of course you can drop features, but if you work at Google I think you can pick something else, and you'll have a hard time convincing anyone that XSLT which was in Chrome back when it was fast, is why Chrome isn't fast anymore. And if you don't work at Google, why do you care? You've learned something new today. Enjoy.
It's not being dishonest. Software needs to be maintained. And google isn't the only web browser, nor should it be. It makes sense to re-evaluate which features make sense for the web. Flash and Java applets were both removed from web browsers and broke sites for millions of users, probably much more than XSLT would. But it was still the right call. This case is a bit more nuanced than those but I still think it's at least fair to discuss removing it.
> You've learned something new today. Enjoy.
Indeed: I learned that you're a condescending ass who doesn't engage with the actual argument I brought up.
It’s classic Google behaviour: “oh not used by a billion people? Didn’t get popular enough, axe it”.
They arguably became a victim of their own scale.