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.
But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off
That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.
For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.
There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.
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 🙄
That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.
For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.
There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.
lets make billboards out of this and place it everywhere
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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)