points by codedokode 3 days ago | 0 comments
There are too many web standards that do not need to be built-in. Many of them can be implemented using JS or WASM library, and this would also reduce fingerprinting possibilities.
For example: base64 API, audio nodes API, canvas API, encryption etc.
And XSLT can be implemented this way as well.
[–] t23414321 3 days ago
[–] codedokode 3 days ago
Browsers are too complicated and this is bad, for example, for creating more competition. And the reason they are complicated is there is too many web standards and too much legacy to support.
[–] t23414321 3 days ago
.. race to the bottom. "more competition" for.. ONE thing Google can do, nothing else (ads engine - not document browser).
Want to make browsers easier ? - removing JavaSript and *fixing browser bugs instead* ('outsourced' to the user) will do that better.
BTW JavaSript it's not W3 standard, XSLT is.
("Live and let live", "Don't break the Web" - "breaking web pages that were made 20 years ago is unlikely to result in bug reports")
[–] tjansen 3 days ago
You can modify XML by including a script tag. Someone somewhere also created a script that allows you to transform your page with XSLT, using the embedded JavaScript.
[–] t23414321 3 days ago
Eat the dogfood then.
What you repeat, it's Google marketing bullshit of the only thing with which they could compete - JS engine.