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Google is killing the open web, part 2

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418 points akagusu | 2 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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andsoitis ◴[17 Nov 25 15:53 UTC] No.45954687[source]▶
I don’t know. The author makes some arguments I could get entertain and get behind, but they also enumerate the immense complexity that they want web browsers to support (incl. Gopher).

Whether or not Google deprecating XSLT is a “political” decision (in authors words), I don’t know that I know for sure, but I can imagine running the Chrome project and steering for more simplicity.

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1. zzo38computer ◴[17 Nov 25 20:45 UTC] No.45958065[source]▶
If you really want to improve the simplicity, there are better ways to do so rather than excluding Gopher.

(Also, they could make XSLT (and many other things that are built-in) into an extension instead, therefore making the core system more simpler.)

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2. joshuamorton ◴[17 Nov 25 23:20 UTC] No.45959597[source]▶
> (Also, they could make XSLT (and many other things that are built-in) into an extension instead, therefore making the core system more simpler.)

This appears to be what they are doing, in fact!