They should switch, then. This notion that we can't peal away browser spec complexity because it will break some websites is the same reason ActiveX continued to wreck havoc long after it should have. I found multiple security vulnerabilities in XSLT back in my pen-testing days, and even if it didn't increase the threat surface, browser spec needs to be simplified anyway.
> This notion that we can't peal away browser spec complexity
They are not peeling away browser complexity. They revel in browser complexity. They gleefuly make browser as complex as possible.... as long as their promotions depend on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44989576
It's a popular presentation format for RSS feeds. And you don't need to somehow attach a Javascript polyfill to an XML feed to make it readable for humans
i do that frequently, especially on podcast feeds where i am not actually interested in the rss entries but in the linked audio files. the rss reader doesn't play those well.
