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Posted Aug 27, 2025 19:22 UTC (Wed) by ju3Ceemi (subscriber, #102464)
In reply to: RSS by josh
Parent article: The tangled web of XSLT browser support

I don't understand either

I do not understand the overall issue, to be honest

If someone wants to format xml in all kinds of way and cannot/will not do that server side, plugins are a thing; Some exist to modify json and xml in prettier format, so this seems like a sane way to resolve the situation

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Posted Aug 27, 2025 20:05 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

I can understand the overall concern: this has been supported by web browsers for a very long time, and it breaks backward compatibility to take it away. That doesn't mean that it can't be, but it is important to replace the use cases (in a fashion that works for the current users, not just what people might hope the current users will switch to).

So, for instance, rendering helpful text for RSS feeds rather than raw XML, without requiring sites to do something different like server-side rendering, when they might not have any ability to run server-side anything.