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How is the answer to any question "Should we remove X from the web platform?" where X wasn't introduced in the last week an has actual users not a resounding "No, WTF is wrong with you.".
The quality of the github comments: accusing developers of being dictators, being overly emotionally, the hate towards people who actually made the web happen (Smaug, Anne, Emilo, etc…), the "why not just…" or "hire more people" remarks... For a browser developer, this is depressing. I've worked on Gecko for 10+ years, and we were constantly called names for absolutely any change we would do. Insulted and accused of…
Personally I've found googles responses to be very rude; they've asked for feedback and people have come back saying "We're still using this, please don't just remove it" and despite that they seem to be completely uncompromising on removing it without any adjustments like shipping the wasm polyfill instead of native code. It kind of baffles me that they could even consider this, maybe I'm just naiive but the webs gr…
How is the answer to any question "Should we remove X from the web platform?" where X wasn't introduced in the last week an has actual users not a resounding "No, WTF is wrong with you.".
How is the answer to any question "Should we remove X from the web platform?" where X wasn't introduced in the last week an has actual users not a resounding "No, WTF is wrong with you.".
Because not everything should be kept in browsers for all eternity? Thankfully it isn't like that and things do get removed.
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Because not everything should be kept in browsers for all eternity? Thankfully it isn't like that and things do get removed.
They absolutely should and this should be considered when adding new features. That's called having a stable platform that others can build upon.
I always kind of liked XSLT but it clearly has not caught on.
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> However, it’s important to be kind to other humans and to treat humans with respect. Very true. But why is that argument never deployed against the bullies? Chrome's developers say "We want to do X". People say "No, please don't." Chrome says "I'm not going to respect your wishes." Where's the equality in that? > Now it can be difficult to voice opposition without coming off as rude but its definitely an important…
> Where's the equality in that? How would you expect equality in an arrangement where you have a few hundred to a few thousand very specific kind of people producing something for billions ? They are in a special position. Every time you depend on someone to do something for you you cannot perform yourself, either due to a time or any other constraint, that is no longer an equal relationship, and it cannot be. You ca…
And that position should not be that of a dictator.
This could be debatable if browsers had any UI at all to display XML. It's incomprehensible that if you open the open web solution for subscribing to web content (RSS) you're greeted with a wall of unformatted text. Right now, XSLT is the poor fix to that browser's basic inability.