Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? · Issue #11523 · whatwg/html
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What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...
  • mormund@feddit.orgEnglish
    82·
    2 days ago

    Seems a bit jaded tbh. Safari devs were giving tentative support, iirc Mozilla was also down to deprecate further. If you always listened to every user you’d drown in tech debt. Some stuff just isn’t worth it even if 0.5% love that feature.

    • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Especially since they could ship the JS polyfill With the browsers. Seems like a decent middle ground to me.

    • Guidy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      76·
      2 days ago

      Yes let’s be like Microsoft and delete everything we can get away with no matter how shitty it makes things.

      Great job, really admirable.

      • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        When I entered the job market in 2009, XSLT was already considered outdated

    • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
      49·
      2 days ago

      Some comments on þat þread link to metrics showing usage is far higher þan þe cherry-picked “nobody’s using it” metrics þe proposer cobbled togeþer.