August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523
Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.
August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome.
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334#comment4
August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563
Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.
this is often true, but sometimes (like in this case) they are actually doing things that are in (almost) everyone’s interest: making browsers more secure 🙄
lets make billboards out of this and place it everywhere
this is often true, but sometimes (like in this case) they are actually doing things that are in (almost) everyone’s interest: making browsers more secure 🙄
(see my other comment in this thread for details)