▲ 359 ▼ RSS feeds are beginning to break once xslt support begins being dropped by browsers soon (justinjackson.ca) submitted 6 months ago by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 53 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 months ago (6 children) Who TF is still using XSLT? Good riddance. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] smh@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 months ago (4 children) We use it at my library/archive to convert EADs (XML finding aids) into something we can present to a human. This change breaks something that's been working for us without issue for over a decade, and it's personally a PITA because I'm the only dev-adjacent person in the library and fixing this takes me away from other stuff. (I'm spread thin and we've been in a hiring freeze for 5 years. I love my coworkers but there's so much work stuff I have to deprioritoze in order to do the important stuff, it feels unfair when a big corporation decides to break something on me.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] confuser@lemmy.zip [S] 3 points 6 months ago Dayum that's rough permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (2 children) You just need literally anything else other than the native browser to do it no? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] smh@slrpnk.net 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) I can't guarantee an online researcher/visitor has anything other than a browser and I sure as heck don't want to walk them through installing something on whatever machine they're using. I do enough tech support as it is. Current plan is to have the web server do it, it's just another thing on my plate that I need to figure out how to do. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Giloron@programming.dev 1 point 6 months ago XSLT can be run on the web server. The browser just receives the output HTML. permalink fedilink source parent [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago Should never have been in the browser anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] smh@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 months ago (4 children) We use it at my library/archive to convert EADs (XML finding aids) into something we can present to a human. This change breaks something that's been working for us without issue for over a decade, and it's personally a PITA because I'm the only dev-adjacent person in the library and fixing this takes me away from other stuff. (I'm spread thin and we've been in a hiring freeze for 5 years. I love my coworkers but there's so much work stuff I have to deprioritoze in order to do the important stuff, it feels unfair when a big corporation decides to break something on me.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] confuser@lemmy.zip [S] 3 points 6 months ago Dayum that's rough permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (2 children) You just need literally anything else other than the native browser to do it no? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] smh@slrpnk.net 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) I can't guarantee an online researcher/visitor has anything other than a browser and I sure as heck don't want to walk them through installing something on whatever machine they're using. I do enough tech support as it is. Current plan is to have the web server do it, it's just another thing on my plate that I need to figure out how to do. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Giloron@programming.dev 1 point 6 months ago XSLT can be run on the web server. The browser just receives the output HTML. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (2 children) You just need literally anything else other than the native browser to do it no? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] smh@slrpnk.net 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) I can't guarantee an online researcher/visitor has anything other than a browser and I sure as heck don't want to walk them through installing something on whatever machine they're using. I do enough tech support as it is. Current plan is to have the web server do it, it's just another thing on my plate that I need to figure out how to do. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Giloron@programming.dev 1 point 6 months ago XSLT can be run on the web server. The browser just receives the output HTML. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] smh@slrpnk.net 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) I can't guarantee an online researcher/visitor has anything other than a browser and I sure as heck don't want to walk them through installing something on whatever machine they're using. I do enough tech support as it is. Current plan is to have the web server do it, it's just another thing on my plate that I need to figure out how to do. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Giloron@programming.dev 1 point 6 months ago XSLT can be run on the web server. The browser just receives the output HTML. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Giloron@programming.dev 1 point 6 months ago XSLT can be run on the web server. The browser just receives the output HTML. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago Should never have been in the browser anyway. permalink fedilink source parent