Post AxOewqKRCO3VblVHXc by oblomov@sociale.network
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(DIR) Post #AwppGFBxBI01ENpMx6 by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-04T14:30:05Z
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What the fuck is wrong with #GoogleChrome / #Blink developers and their obsession with making the #web worse for *everybody*?https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523We need to break #Google's dominance on the #web yesterday, and make it painful for them.
(DIR) Post #AwppGGGbBVJEZ50apc by evgandr@mas.to
2025-08-04T18:41:37Z
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@oblomov From the words: "XSLT … was standardized in 1999" I knew where it will lead :dragnsarc: I'll cite one of my fedifrens:>"Obsolete" is a word someone usually uses to dismiss something that still works without having to think of technical reasons why they should not use it. It is usually a marketing tactic to convince people they need to constantly re-invent stuff that already exists and works to make people spend more money. Obsolescence is a state of mind.https://soc.megatokyo.moe/notice/AvTlegeYwdIzlnIZhg
(DIR) Post #AwppGHCjhLoVTOD1Rw by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-08-04T18:48:53Z
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@evgandr@mas.to @oblomov@sociale.networkand make it painful for themCan I bring a box of white phosphorous munitions I've been saving for this day? 🥺
(DIR) Post #AwppGP98AdgQ6WaFwO by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-04T14:35:19Z
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Ten years ago they tried this shit with #SMIL https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/5o0yiO440LM/m/YGEJBsjUAwAJthe web standard for JS-less animations and interactions that can be used to build interactive #SVG graphics. That one was luckily aborted. Now it's time to put pressure on them to keep #XSLT in.
(DIR) Post #AwppGXUh8LgZzijafA by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-04T14:45:36Z
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Especially if you're an #indieWeb supporter, you should consider this feature *essential*, as it's what gives you the ability e.g. to make your #RSS feeds nicely formatted even on browsers that have removed built-in support for them (i.e. basically anything except for #VivaldiBrowser).Of course, it can be used for more than that. I wrote about this (in Italian) on my website a couple of years agohttps://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/uberprufungslisten/
(DIR) Post #AwppGj71w9t21nkrRY by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-04T14:50:51Z
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(Fun fact: had #ActivityPub been designed around an #XML representation of linked data instead of #JSON, most of the #Fediverse could be presented on the web via #XSLT, without requiring #JavaScript, directly from the source objects.)
(DIR) Post #AwppGrkJpy4EnyCLnE by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-04T16:16:10Z
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I'm feeling the urge to add another chapter to my series on the death of Opera/Presto and what this meant for the open webhttp://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/opera-requiem-3/
(DIR) Post #AwprBSzSeQCgUEplkO by evgandr@mas.to
2025-08-04T18:56:23Z
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@m0xEE @oblomov You mean something prohibited by Geneva convention? :dragnsmirk:I recommend to continue to water you garden with machine oil :dragnsmirk: :dragnsmirk: … for worsen times
(DIR) Post #AwprBUG9vp9eQJecPg by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-08-04T19:10:30Z
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@evgandr@mas.to @oblomov@sociale.networkOh, don't mind me — speaking of doing horrible things to Google is my Fedi character trait 😈
(DIR) Post #AxOewi6Jn00Y5eptQG by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-04T19:52:16Z
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If I had a more conspiracist mind, I'd say that the timing of #Google's proposal to remove #XSLT support from #Chrome #Chromium #Blink just as we are seeing a resurgence of interest in #RSS and the #indieWeb away from the centralized #GAFAM silos is quite suspicious.
(DIR) Post #AxOewj7Q0OTxFMMHmC by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-05T10:56:16Z
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That reminds me, I need to create some XLST to make the RSS and Atom feeds on the Wok be readable in-browser.
(DIR) Post #AxOewjlpa8oBGhGYlc by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-05T14:45:26Z
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One would expect browser developers to be people that actually cared about the web.More and more it feels like modern browsers are not being developed as *User Agent*, but as as tools beholden to the interests of the corporations that have been trying to gain control of the web for the last two decades.#webdev
(DIR) Post #AxOewkTmwhyDT1pfHc by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-06T14:53:44Z
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This comment https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-3160242434is the most powerful writeup I've read in a long while about why #XSLT is worth it, and why instead of actively sabotaging it browsers should keep their implementations up with the progress of the standard.
(DIR) Post #AxOewlLJjgmw92sPia by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-06T18:50:59Z
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My small act of #resistance against the #enshittification of the web today has been to use client-side #XSLT for something different that #RSS styling: generating multiple #SVG plots from the same #XML data:https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-xslt/#webdev #openWeb #indieWeb
(DIR) Post #AxOewmuntElh1OUGfY by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-08T12:09:47Z
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I have now actually started working on #sparkline support via #XSLT. The same page as beforehttps://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-xslt/now features a small preview of what this feature can do, and I can't express how happy I am to actually *see* that sparkline right there, my first *real* sparkline, not the pseudo-plots assembled form Unicode block characters still featuring at the top of my index pages.It's an ugly sparkline (I'm no Tufte after all) but it makes me so happy.
(DIR) Post #AxOewnfb5GCNMWNdbc by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-08T12:14:15Z
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I'm currently working on the #XSLT that generates the #sparkline #SVG from raw #XML data to make it more flexible. This will make the code grow larger (especially singe I'm forced to use the 25-years old #XSLT1 because that's what browsers support, despite two major releases that would make everything easier and more compact), but I will be able to recycle the code to replace the pseudo-sparklines of index pages with _actual_ #sparklines.
(DIR) Post #AxOewofdMbp2SvPBIm by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-09T15:16:20Z
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Progress update on my #XSLT #SVG #sparkline generatorhttps://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-sparklines-xslt/Another step in my path to revitalize usage of XSLT on the web. And before you ask, no, this is not to spite the #WHATWG and their #XML-aversive #JavaScript brainrot, it's something I've wanted to do for years, as documented by my previous posts on the subject.However, since the corporate-controlled WHATWG is using metrics as excuse to boycott the #openWeb and #indieWeb, it becomes doubly important to do this now.
(DIR) Post #AxOewpcTpotTPQwB1c by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-09T20:39:44Z
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Speaking of those metrics, here's a few things to keep in mind.1. Chrome has an estimated ~3.5 billion people. A feature that is used by “only” 0.03% of the users still affects over 1 million people2. even assuming some uniformity across browsers that million people is an underestimation by at least a 30%(continues)
(DIR) Post #AxOewqKRCO3VblVHXc by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-09T20:43:06Z
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(continues)3. but actually, people who spend more time in less common parts of the web are likely more privacy-conscious, meaning they are more likely to have disabled metrics collection or use a more privacy-conscious browsers, so those percentages are most likely *even more underestimated*.I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that the million people thresholds is passed even for features that are “measured” at less than 0.01% in Blink statistics.
(DIR) Post #AxOewr36WJmhqIOxA8 by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-09T20:45:36Z
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Why does that matter? Because the #WHATWG using #Chrome usage statistics to determine whether or not a feature is being used or not is just another indication of how strong #Google's stranglehold on the web is.And while we're at it, for all we know Google might be actively demoting sites that use #XSLT in their searchers, thereby making it even harder for any user to come across such a site. Let's not forget that they've been trying to kill anything XML related for more than a decade.
(DIR) Post #AxOewyTwsuPuta0zTc by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-08-12T01:22:32Z
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I've pushed the #XSLT integration in my website one major step further: the text-based activity pseudo-sparklines I used to have have now been replaced with actual #sparklines. Here's my write-up on the experience:https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/sparkling-wok-4/You can enjoy them all of them in action on the homepage athttps://wok.oblomov.eu/I highly recommend looking into the power of XSLT, if not else to piss off the corporate-controlled WHATWG.