RSS
RSS
Posted Aug 27, 2025 20:47 UTC (Wed) by archaic (subscriber, #111970)In reply to: RSS by jzb
Parent article: The tangled web of XSLT browser support
I'm not convinced it was ever a good idea for web browsers to handle _any_ content that came over their sockets in a pretty human-readable away. I support the removal of xslt and even rss processing in a browser, but not the removal of xslt as a stylesheet format. If we were talking about a purely API-based middleware between a browser and a "unified" backend (possibly like libxslt) then technically it is no longer the browser doing any heavy lifting, is it? But then, I also don't want a browser to be opening any executable that might hand arbitrary data to arbitrary backends, either. Perhaps, as the protocol name expressly states, only HTTP data should be supported by a browser? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> https://www.bennadel.com/rss
Looks perfectly readable in raw curl output. Should curl make it prettier? I do not think so. The right app for the job. Browsers are not the right app for most jobs, though you wouldn't know that looking at all the jobs put on them.
