Comment by cxr
12 hours ago
Your response is like seeing the cops going to the wrong house to kick in your neighbors door, breaking their ornaments in their entry way, and then saying to yourself, "Good. I hate yellow, and would never have any of that tacky shit in my house."
As your first sentence of your comment indicates, the fact that it's supported and there for people to use doesn't (and hasn't) result in you being forced to use it in your projects.
Yes but software, and especially browser, complexity has balooned enormously over the years. And while XSLT probably plays a tiny part in that, it's likely embedded in every Electron app that could do in 1MB what it takes 500 MB to do, makes it incrementally harder to build and maintain a competing browser, etc., etc. It's not zero cost.
I do tend to support backwards compatibility over constant updates and breakage, and needless hoops to jump through as e.g. Apple often puts its developers through. But having grown up and worked in the overexuberant XML-for-everything, semantic-web 1000-page specification, OOP AbstractFactoryTemplateManagerFactory era, I'm glad to put some of that behind us.
If that makes me some kind of gestappo, so be it.
Point to the part of your comment that has any-fucking-thing to do with the topic at hand (i.e. engages with the actual substance of the comment that it's posted as a reply to). Your comment starts with "Yes but", as if it to present it as a rebuttal or rejoinder to something that was said, but then proceeds into total non-sequitur. It's an unrestrained attempt at a change of subject and makes for a not-very-hard-to-spot type of misdirection.
Your neighbors' ugly yellow tchotchkes have in no way forced you—nor will they ever force you—to ornament your house with XSLT printouts.
Alright, you're extremely rude and combative so I'll probably tap out here.
But consider if the "yellow tchotchkes" draw some power from my house, produce some stinky blue smoke that occasionally wafts over, requires a government-paid maintenance person to occasionally stop by and work on, that I partly pay for with my taxes.
That's my point.
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Remove crappy JS APIs and other web-tech first before deprecating XSLT - which is a true-blue public standard. For folks who don't enable JS and XML data, XSLT is a life-saver.
If we're talking about removing things for security security, the ticking time bomb that is WebUSB seems top of the list to me of things that are dangerous, not actually standards (it is Chrome only), and yet a bunch of websites think it's a big, good reason to be Chrome-only.
But XSLT can be replicated with JavaScript and the reverse is, sadly, untrue.
So if only one needed to go, it seems obvious which it should be.