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Google is killing the open web, part 2

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418 points akagusu | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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dfabulich ◴[17 Nov 25 16:44 UTC] No.45955306[source]▶
In part 1 of this article, the author wrote, "XSLT is an essential companion to RSS, as it allows the feed itself to be perused in the browser"

Actually, you can make an RSS feed user-browsable by using JavaScript instead. You can even run XSLT in JavaScript, which is what Google's polyfill does.

I've written thousands of lines of XSLT. JavaScript is better than XSLT in every way, which is why JavaScript has thrived and XSLT has dwindled.

This is why XSLT has got to go: https://www.offensivecon.org/speakers/2025/ivan-fratric.html

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1. throw_m239339 ◴[17 Nov 25 21:35 UTC] No.45958606[source]▶
> by using JavaScript instead

I think you're entirely missing the point of RSS by saying that. RSS doesn't and should require NOT Javascript.

Now feeds could somehow be written in some bastard HTML5 directly, but please don't bring Javascript in that debate.

XSLT allows to transform a XML document into an HTML presentation, without the need for javascript, that's its purpose.