> Open web means popular browsers supporting a wide range of technologies that institutions, businesses, and people use.
The “wide range of technologies” is not what makes the web “open”.
The openness comes from the fact that anyone can write web sites and anyone can write a browser that can render the same websites that chrome can render. “More features” does not imply “more open”.
Dropping support for xslt would make the web less open if it were being replaced by some proprietary Google tech. But that’s not what’s happening here at all.
> Not: popular browsers needle through technologies and tell everyone they know best
How else would it possibly work? Everyone has to actively choose the features they will build and support.
I don’t care to continue this discussion primarily because you are making nearly the same points as two other commenters and it has become a three way exhausting conversation. You hate XSLT or something and love Google, congrats, you win this discussion. XSLT will be removed, Javascript will reign king. You will be happy. Every one will say Mason Freed is right and smart and that XML sucks because no one who matters uses it. I was never going to convince you to like or consider other technologies, anyways. And since that is true, this conversation doesn't do anything to try and help save XSLT and not worth continuing for me at least.
I wish it weren't the case but good luck and I'm sure we'll speak again with nearly the same conversation at the next thread for a standard deprecation that ad companies don't like.
Bold of you to assume other commenters in this thread have no experience with XML or XSLT.
I was there when it was the new hottest thing and I was there when it became last year's thing. These things come and go, and this one's time has come.
The “wide range of technologies” is not what makes the web “open”.
The openness comes from the fact that anyone can write web sites and anyone can write a browser that can render the same websites that chrome can render. “More features” does not imply “more open”.
Dropping support for xslt would make the web less open if it were being replaced by some proprietary Google tech. But that’s not what’s happening here at all.
> Not: popular browsers needle through technologies and tell everyone they know best
How else would it possibly work? Everyone has to actively choose the features they will build and support.