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Do you use it daily in browser?
by sharpfuryz 1y ago
Do you use it daily in browser?
- jeroenhd 1y agoTons of APIs and applications work with XML. XSLT less so; that's more of a backend language.
- MrVandemar 1y agoImmaterial. If the answer is either 'yes' or 'no', it makes no actual difference: gopher still exists, is still a thing, is still successful. It feels like you're just trying to move the goal-posts and redefine what 'lose' means and trying to lure the poster into a "gotcha".
- sharpfuryz 1y agoIt's not about a "gotcha." Browsers once supported the GOPHER protocol but dropped it around a decade ago. This serves as an analogy: if users don't use XSLT/XML daily, browsers may eventually drop support for XSLT - supporting features cost money
- MrVandemar 1y agoThat's not a great analogy. Firefox once supported RSS feeds as live bookmarks and dropped it, and not because people didn't use it, because people did use it and bemoaned its loss for years afterwards.
- Ferret7446 1y agoThis is a "cope" argument. GP doesn't mean literally no one uses it; they mean very few people use it. Yes, there are people using RSS/XML, but that proportion is (will be?) 0% when rounded to the nearest Nth decimal. They are, unfortunately, insignificant.
- aragilar 1y agoYes, RSS.
- TiredOfLife 1y agoWhich browser? Firefox and Chrome have no support
- aragilar 1y agoWhich is why people are up in arms about XSLT, as you can provide previews of the feed via it.