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2025-11-10 15:56 UTC

@johl@mastodon.xyz I still don't get that "they want to kill XSL, so they must hate RSS!"-take Yes, some people generated xhtml-views from RSS/Atom (or the other way, feeds from XHTML) by writing XSLT? But that's like only one application and not even a good one? You can just have your software generate both with individual templates? That's probably the way more common way to do that? Why would you even…? It's a weird edge case at best?

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@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com 2025-11-10 16:02

@dat@social.g33ky.de @johl@mastodon.xyz If I'm being generous, my take is that they think RSS is a good standard that needs all the help it can get (and hasn't fallen by the wayside for the application of news aggregation for a laundry list of reasons best read while playing the Nintendo Mii Creator theme in the background), and that chopping XSLT native rendering from the browser harms that goal. ... If I'm not being generous, they're cantankerous, terrified of returning to the bad old days of Microsoft controlling the web by monopoly, and grasping at straws to generalize a pretty decent engineering decision into a slippery-slope argument to serve those ends. (Sidebar on RSS: The most damning evidence that Reader closing down didn't kill RSS is that RSS is still here and doing fine. 100% of the podcasts I listen to come in via RSS feeds. What doesn't is my news, aggregated from decentralized sources to a centralized client... And I think that application diminished heavily independent of the protocol. Trying to bring back decentralized, independent web news by propping up RSS for that application is like looking at modern media conglomerates and trying to break that pattern by supporting the telegraph.)

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@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-11-10 23:36

@dat@social.g33ky.de @johl@mastodon.xyz That was what made me think that it's a joke and that they're poking fun at spurious arguments that news about two related technologies implies a greater conspiracy. Especially the point about how killing Reader was close in time to first trying to deprecate XSLT.

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