bjoern_tantau comments on RSS feeds are beginning to break once xslt support begins being dropped by browsers soon

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 34 points 6 months ago (6 children)

That's just for those few websites that use their RSS feed as their content source. If they want to keep doing that they can just get a JavaScript library that provides XSLT functionality. The feed itself is untouched.

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[–] 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"Yay more JavaScript" said nobody

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 6 months ago

It's really hard to decide whether XSLT or JavaScript is worse. On the one hand XSLT wasn't cobbled together in a weekend. On the other it requires you to write XML and its "arrays" start at 1.

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[–] Papierkorb@feddit.org 3 points 6 months ago

Would be easy to render the XSLT in the server. Could be cached nicely as well.

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