Its time is gone

Posted Aug 28, 2025 9:17 UTC (Thu) by dottedmag (subscriber, #18590)
Parent article: The tangled web of XSLT browser support

Lots of wild Web-adjacent technologies were bubbling in the minds back then. Some of them somehow got accreted to the browsers and ossified, some of them stayed outside and withered.

With 25 years of hindsight, it's obvious that XSLT is not a smashing success. A technology like that would not pass the bar for being added to browsers today. Good riddance!