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.

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cxr 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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QuadrupleA 11 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	cxr 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Alright, you're extremely rude In contrast to poisoning the discussion with subtle conversational antimatter while wearing a veneer of amiability. My comments in this thread are not insidiously off-topic non-replies presented as somehow relevant in apposition to the ones that precede them. > 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 Anyone making the "overwork the analogy" move automatically loses, always. Even ignoring that, nothing in this sentence even makes any sense wrt XSLT in the browser or the role of browser makers as stewards of stable Web standards. It's devoid of any cogent point and communicates no insight on the topic at hand.

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lenkite 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	WorldMaker 18 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	shadowgovt 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.