Comment by basscomm

3 months ago

> If I used XSLT on my tiny, low-traffic blog, I think it's reasonable for browser devs to tell me to update my code.

I _do_ use XSLT on my tiny, low-traffic blog, and I _don't_ think that it's reasonable for browser devs to tell me to update my code.

Also, it's real easy to manufacture a situation where adoption of a thing is low when the implementation is incomplete and hasn't had significant updates for decades.

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tsimionescu  3 months ago

The web has grown a thousand fold over those decades, in spite of no support for XSLT. No browser has failed (or gained market traction) by missing support for (or adding more support for) XSLT. It's an irrelevancy, even if you did like it once.

Lots of content was lost when Flash was removed as well - much, much more than the amount of content that will be lost if XSLT is removed. And yet the web continued.

  • chownie  3 months ago

    The web is straight up a weaker, worse more closed off experience post-flash, so I'm not sure that this engenders the kind of response you had envisioned but now I'm worried about xslt.