Comment by troupo

3 months ago

Do Library of Congress and Congress count? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958929

It's not for the public to identify these sites. It's for the arrogant Googlers to do a modicum of research

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bawolff  3 months ago

At first glance the library of congress link appears to be using server side XSLT, which would not be affected by this proposal.

The congress one appears to be the first legit example i have seen.

At first glance the congress use case does seem like it would be fully covered by CSS [you can attach CSS stylesheets to generic xml documents in a similar fashion to xslt]. Of course someone would have to make that change.

  • troupo  3 months ago

    > Of course someone would have to make that change.

    Of course. And yet none of the people from Google even seem to be aware of

    > The congress one appears to be the first legit example i have seen.

    There are more. E.g. podcast RSS feeds are often presented on the web with XSLT: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/231452.rss

    Again, none of the people from Google even seem to be aware of these use cases, and just power through regardless of any concerns.

    • bawolff  3 months ago

      > Of course. And yet none of the people from Google even seem to be aware of

      I don't see any reason to assume that. I don't think anyone from google is claiming the literal number of sites is 0, just that it is insignificant.

      I am very sure the people at google are aware of the rss feed usage.

      Don't confuse people disagreeing with you with people not understanding you.

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    • GoblinSlayer  3 months ago

      They are easy to understand :) Modern browsers became such bloatware beyond salvation, they start to feel all the tech debt.