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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/marcoarment/statuses/115050185929899546">Marco Arment (marcoarment@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:15:43 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment" title="marcoarment@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/42215-48-20221128191940.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Marco Arment" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Marco Arment</a></section><article><p>Fun fact: David Karp saved the world from XSLT being Tumblr's blog-theme language.</p><p>XSLT was a big part of my previous job, and I liked it. It was weird, but fit certain problems well! (Like me!)</p><p>When making Tumblr’s custom-blog-theme template system, I first implemented an XSLT version.</p><p>I showed it to David, and he was diplomatic, but he clearly HATED it.</p><p>XML is bulky, ugly, formal, and overly structured; Tumblr, and David himself, were none of those things.</p><p>(1/2)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115048990801167629" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115048990801167629</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5539905#notice-10876426">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-08-25T19:15:43+09:00" title="Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:15:43 JST">about 10 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/115050185929899546" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/115050185929899546">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115048990801167629">Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)</a></h5><div> from <span>Terence Eden</span></div></header><div>August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome.
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334#comment4August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563Like, 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.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Marco Arment (marcoarment@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:15:43 JST Marco Arment
Fun fact: David Karp saved the world from XSLT being Tumblr's blog-theme language.
XSLT was a big part of my previous job, and I liked it. It was weird, but fit certain problems well! (Like me!)
When making Tumblr’s custom-blog-theme template system, I first implemented an XSLT version.
I showed it to David, and he was diplomatic, but he clearly HATED it.
XML is bulky, ugly, formal, and overly structured; Tumblr, and David himself, were none of those things.
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  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.

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