Chrome’s team argues that because only about 0.02% of page loads use XSLT, it’s not worth the maintenance burden.
Surely given the volume of browser usage, 0.02% is still a very substantial amount of usage. Lazy fucks
I’m not entirely sure what the “maintenance burden” even is on a tech that hasn’t changed in decades.
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From the article:
Google says it’s removing XSLT to address security vulnerabilities. The underlying library that processes XSLT in Chrome (libxslt) is an aging C/C++ codebase with known memory safety issues. Chrome’s team argues that because only about 0.02% of page loads use XSLT, it’s not worth the maintenance burden.
It’s debatable whether Google, with all its resources, really needs to do this, especially given that 0.02% of all page loads is still quite a lot. But there are certainly times when it’s better to just delete seldom-used old code from your project to lower the maintenance burden and reduce the surface area for attacks.
Wait, browsers still had RSS support? I thought that was deprecated a decade ago. I’ve been using dedicated apps for them
Vivaldi does. I assume there are chrome and Firefox plugins too.
i browsed the web via RSS for a while. Maybe it’s time to get back to that. at least for some food blogs or something. anyone got a good rss reader?
Feeder on Android. Default choice I would say.
Thunderbird. It feels right at home paired with Firefox, and has extremely powerful message filtering built in.
I like miniflux. Lightweight, web based, selfhostable, assisted hosting and compatible with third party clients.
Same, minflux is simple and very lightweight. I just use a we app on my phone to read it. Still very responsive.
I use FluentReader, and an extension that restores Firefox’s old RSS functionality.
Edit: The extension I use is called Livemarks
i currently use firefox. mind sharing that extention with us please?
Its called Livemarks
I’m blanking on the name rn, but I’ll let you know ASAP
Got FreshRSS running on my home server and feeding a couple of client programs. RSSGuard on my computers and Readrops on my phone. No complaints, got it doing exactly what I want it to do.
There are libraries that can polyfill this with almost zero effort. List should not effect any active site that offers rss feeds.
It’s not zero effort at all. For XML(which RSS is) with xlst it is serving only 2 static files. The XML file with a reference to the xlst file, and the xlst file.
The XML can be read without transformation by tools like RSS readers, but displayed with transformation into HTML for viewing in a browser with the xlst.
You’re saying it is easy to polyfill, but involving JavaScript at all completely breaks the (useful) paradigm
It’s sad to see how browser manufacturers have been treating RSS for a while. Back in the day your Firefox would show you that a page has an RSS feed. You were able to click on it, see what was in there in human readable, not cryptic-XML style format, and you were able to subscribe to it. Then you had a nice little bookmark showing you everything this page had posted recently. RSS is a great technology and it really really sucks how Big Tech has tried to kill it.
Who TF is still using XSLT?
Good riddance.
Should never have been in the browser anyway.
I’m a little confused about this. While I’ve been using RSS feeds for several years, my only experience with RSS feeds is with Inoreader. Will this cause issues with the way that I’ve been using RSS feeds or will I be unaffected?
Sites can just use CSS.
