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RSS feeds are beginning to break once xslt support begins being dropped by browsers soon
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this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2026
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That's just for those few websites that use their RSS feed as their content source. If they want to keep doing that they can just get a JavaScript library that provides XSLT functionality. The feed itself is untouched.
"Yay more JavaScript" said nobody
It's really hard to decide whether XSLT or JavaScript is worse. On the one hand XSLT wasn't cobbled together in a weekend. On the other it requires you to write XML and its "arrays" start at 1.
Would be easy to render the XSLT in the server. Could be cached nicely as well.
So things like newsbreak who ingest a sites feed then display?
Should be fine. They don't have to use a browser to retrieve that feed.
Yep which is why the purpose of this post