Post AxJDQRYrfCsbfobLZQ by phooky@hexa.club
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 (DIR) Post #AxJ9fedQwFhMkQjhOC by Edent@mastodon.social
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       August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome.https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334#comment4August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard.https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxJ9fiKRCoseCfsaKu by Edent@mastodon.social
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       As a little bonus treat, here's an older discussion about Google removing XSLT from Blink.Most of the arguments (on both sides) remain the same.https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/zIg2KC7PyH0The date of that discussion? 2014!
       
 (DIR) Post #AxJ9fjllqgL2fjfvZw by Edent@mastodon.social
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       Muting this thread now.@ me directly if you have something interesting to say about the subject.(Still longing for BSky's reply-gating feature to make it over here!)
       
 (DIR) Post #AxJ9gfE6E1ros6Mr9E by phooky@hexa.club
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       @Edent look, I get it, Google sucks, but... I remember trying very hard to use XSLT in my personal and professional projects in the '00s and it was just Not Great. I feel like it belongs with CORBA and SOAP in the toybox of neat ideas that were just crushing to try to actually use.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxJ9gkxIvNzudkYWno by konato@socel.net
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       @phooky @Edent that doesn't mean you have to actually remove it, things like <marquee> are deprecated in html 5 and they still render in all browsers
       
 (DIR) Post #AxJ9hZUh1WPlNmYtmq by konato@socel.net
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       @phooky @Edent that doesn't mean you have to actually remove it, things like <marquee> are deprecated in html 5 and they still render in all browsers
       
 (DIR) Post #AxJDQRYrfCsbfobLZQ by phooky@hexa.club
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       @konato @Edent true, but the marquee tag is not Turing complete and haltingly maintained. A better analogy might be phasing out Flash.