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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/555312

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My comment: It seems google is trying to pull another Manifest v3 and JPEGXL - propose then ignore everyone and do it anyway.

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 22 hours ago

some context.

(tldr: libxslt is a significant source of vulnerabilities and it should absolutely be removed from browsers ASAP.)

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why not fix library, corporate are lacking of founds to fix all the tickets ? Reminds me of Google openssl fork because it's not "their" opensource product so they won't contribute or pay someone to do it.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Looking through the comments, someone already wrote a polyfill that people could use if they need it. It's a niche feature that is the source of security vulnerabilities, so why fix it if they can safely replace it?

[–] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

To have good XSLT library that follows standard ? But no we got html5 and now web components and shadow DOM slop that is not even accessible from javascript instead of proper XSLT because nobody wants to deal with it. XPath is broken since the beginning of this shit show.

[–] coreray00@discuss.online 10 points 1 day ago

I don’t know how they’re used in RSS feeds, but I’d pay $100 if I never had to write XSLT ever again 🤷

[–] thfi@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] mormund@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.social 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.world 1 points 22 hours ago

When I entered the job market in 2009, XSLT was already considered outdated

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -5 points 1 day 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.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you guys need this for? And why?

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For reformatting / transforming data. If your original data is already in XML then XSLT can be quite powerful there.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Thanks, but I understand that. Where does that come up? There's RSS feeds. Anything else?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have my attention, please elaborate.