Google is killing the open web, part 2

I’m no Google fan, but deprecating XSLT is a rare opportunity to shrink the surface area of the web’s “API” without upsetting too many people. It would be one less thing for independent browsers like Ladybird to worry about. Thus actually weakening Google’s chokehold on the browser market.

> but deprecating XSLT is a rare opportunity to shrink the surface area of the web’s “API” without upsetting too many people

There's a lot of back and forth on every discussion about XSLT removal. I don't know if I would categorize that as 'without upsetting too many people'

We are largely the nerds that other nerds picked on for being too nerdy. I’d bet that a hugely disproportionate share of all the people in the world who care about this subject at all are here in these conversations.

Actual normies don’t think of the Internet at all. They open Facebook The App on their iPads and smartphones and that’s the internet for them.

Passionate nerds giving a shit can build a far more rosy world than whatever that represents, so I don’t see why anyone should give a damn if this happens to be somewhat niche.