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Re:Chrome unlikely to support XPath 3.1 by kerng on Sunday November 01, 2020 @01:58PM (#24961604)
1-2% of page views is pretty massive!

Consider adjusting this number to remove any Google sites that are viewed (to remove Google's own bias/quasi browser monopoly) - and it probably goes up a lot more even.

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Re:Chrome unlikely to support XPath 3.1 by inimino on Sunday November 01, 2020 @07:31PM (#24963843)
The number of pages with Flash content was also massive for many years. There must be some discipline to remove things from the web platform or it will die.

XPath predates CSS selectors being exposed to JS, and it is absolutely clear that XPath had its best shot to move from niche to mainstream over a decade ago and it didn't happen.

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Re:Chrome unlikely to support XPath 3.1 by namedgraph on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:07AM (#24998292)
Could a part of the reason that XPath stayed a niche technology that WHATWG and Google continuously chipped away at XML support and compatibility and shipped 20 year old implementations?
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