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Re:XSLT RIP by IshKebab on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:17PM (#45879663)
I think their logic makes sense. They're removing support because of security concerns, and they're not adding support back using an extension because approximately nobody uses this feature.

Adding the support back via an extension isn't cost free.

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Re:XSLT RIP by chrismorgan on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @12:15AM (#45884345)
I suppose that’s a legitimate framing. But I will still insist that, at the very least, their framing is deliberately misleading, and that saying “you can’t have XSLT because security” is dishonest.
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Re:XSLT RIP by IshKebab on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:17AM (#45885180)
According to the extension's README there are still issues with it, so they definitely would have to do more work.

And yeah Chrome is really strict about binary size these days. Every kB has to be justified. It doesn't support brotli compression because it would have added like 16kB to the binary size.

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