▲ 345 ▼ RSS feeds are beginning to break once xslt support begins being dropped by browsers soon (justinjackson.ca) submitted 7 months ago by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 53 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 49 points 7 months ago (7 children) Xslt has nothing to do with RSS being available or not. permalink fedilink source hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] confuser@lemmy.zip [S] 23 points 7 months ago (6 children) It seems to have to do with how it looks formatting wise and not about availability or not, that is what is being meant. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 31 points 7 months ago (5 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago (1 child) "Yay more JavaScript" said nobody permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 7 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] _wizard@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 child) So things like newsbreak who ingest a sites feed then display? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago Should be fine. They don't have to use a browser to retrieve that feed. permalink fedilink source parent [–] confuser@lemmy.zip [S] 2 points 7 months ago Yep which is why the purpose of this post permalink fedilink source parent
[–] confuser@lemmy.zip [S] 23 points 7 months ago (6 children) It seems to have to do with how it looks formatting wise and not about availability or not, that is what is being meant. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 31 points 7 months ago (5 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago (1 child) "Yay more JavaScript" said nobody permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 7 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] _wizard@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 child) So things like newsbreak who ingest a sites feed then display? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago Should be fine. They don't have to use a browser to retrieve that feed. permalink fedilink source parent [–] confuser@lemmy.zip [S] 2 points 7 months ago Yep which is why the purpose of this post permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 31 points 7 months ago (5 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago (1 child) "Yay more JavaScript" said nobody permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 7 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] _wizard@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 child) So things like newsbreak who ingest a sites feed then display? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago Should be fine. They don't have to use a browser to retrieve that feed. permalink fedilink source parent [–] confuser@lemmy.zip [S] 2 points 7 months ago Yep which is why the purpose of this post permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago (1 child) "Yay more JavaScript" said nobody permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 7 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 7 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] _wizard@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 child) So things like newsbreak who ingest a sites feed then display? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago Should be fine. They don't have to use a browser to retrieve that feed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago Should be fine. They don't have to use a browser to retrieve that feed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] confuser@lemmy.zip [S] 2 points 7 months ago Yep which is why the purpose of this post permalink fedilink source parent