@Edent@mastodon.social
August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523
Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.
August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome.
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334#comment4
August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563
Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.
As a little bonus treat, here's an older discussion about Google removing XSLT from Blink.
Most of the arguments (on both sides) remain the same.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/zIg2KC7PyH0
The date of that discussion? 2014!
@swick @Edent I think it is, but that the community being engaged is smaller than it seems. Notice how the person who opened it tagged four other people who all expressed agreement. Therefore the community being engaged agreed.
Seems to me it’s more like a city council meeting where people can present comments, but only the council members’ opinions actually matter.
I wonder if anyone from w3c was involved and/or gave any suggestion about the matter.
One single project (corp-owned) is about to make a major change which may affect the entirety of the www. Ok not 100%... 70? 80? Still seems a lot.
If Netscape made the same in early 2000's they would be ripped apart. When Microsoft pushed on ActiveX, the web community let them do by themselves (last time I saw an activex was like 6 months ago)
Just my worthless opinion.
