On 9/10/13 17:18, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 10/9/13 12:01 PM, Gervase Markham wrote:
In the spirit of learning from this, what's next on the chopping block?
* XSLT (Chrome have already announced they will remove it:
Have they? I admit I haven't made it through every post in their
discussion threads, but AFAICS, some people from Chrome have expressed
an interest in removing it, but this suggestion generated considerable
debate (including some definite opposition to the idea).
We'd need to do the same extension thing they're proposing or something;
this is used in the wild for sites that people care about.
It's used "in the wild" on the web, and I've also known it to be used
locally as a convenient tool to present views of data files that happen
to be maintained in XML format.
Moving it to an extension (so that it isn't available unless the user is
aware of it and explicitly installs support) would seem like a negative
step, though if usage is rare/specialized enough, perhaps it would be
OK. But I think we should be very hesitant to entirely remove XSLT
support from the platform.
JK
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