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by troupo 301 days ago
> This notion that we can't peal away browser spec complexity

They are not peeling away browser complexity. They revel in browser complexity. They gleefuly make browser as complex as possible.... as long as their promotions depend on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44989576
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kstrauser 301 days ago
None of those could be implemented in JavaScript or WASM. XSLT could.

Say what you will about the popularity of each of them, but they can't exist without browser implementations. XSLT can be replaced with a polyfill.

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youngtaff 301 days ago
> XSLT can be replaced with a polyfill

Show me how a polyfill allows me to type https://example.com/rss.xml in the URL bar and have it transformed to HTML in the browser?

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kstrauser 301 days ago
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to read an RSS feed directly, although I subscribe to a lot of them. Is that a popular reading method?
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troupo 301 days ago
It's a popular presentation format for RSS feeds. And you don't need to somehow attach a Javascript polyfill to an XML feed to make it readable for humans
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em-bee 301 days ago
i do that frequently, especially on podcast feeds where i am not actually interested in the rss entries but in the linked audio files. the rss reader doesn't play those well.
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em-bee 301 days ago
how do you do that with anything else?

firefox doesn't load the file at all, but loads it into an external tool which (gasp!) is chrome. chrome displays the raw xml.

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