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Google is killing the open web, part 2

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418 points akagusu | 3 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Aurornis ◴[17 Nov 25 16:31 UTC] No.45955140[source]▶
I have yet to read an article complaining about XSLT deprecation from someone who can explain why they actually used it and why it’s important to them.

> I will keep using XSLT, and in fact will look for new opportunities to rely on it.

This is the closest I’ve seen, but it’s not an explanation of why it was important before the deprecation. It’s a declaration that they’re using it as an act of rebellion.

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James_K ◴[17 Nov 25 17:31 UTC] No.45955821[source]▶
I use XSLT because I want my website to work for users with JavaScript disabled and I want to present my Atom feed link as an HTML document on a statically hosted site without breaking standards compliance. Hope this helps.
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matthews3 ◴[17 Nov 25 17:36 UTC] No.45955882[source]▶
Could you run XSLT as part of your build process, and serve the generated HTML?
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1. bilog ◴[17 Nov 25 17:44 UTC] No.45955956[source]▶
XML source + XSLT can be considerably more compact than the resulting transformation, saving on hosting and bandwidth.
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2. zetanor ◴[17 Nov 25 18:33 UTC] No.45956451[source]▶
The Internet saves a lot more on storage and bandwidth costs by not shipping an XSLT implementation with every browser than it does by allowing Joe's Blog to present XML as an index.
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3. LtWorf ◴[17 Nov 25 19:10 UTC] No.45956894[source]▶
You redownload your browser every request‽