Was shipping the xslt polyfill as part of the browser considered? That would seem to satisfy everyone
On Friday, October 31, 2025 at 2:11:15 PM UTC-7 Mason Freed wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just to verify, this will not remove document.evaluate which depends on >> XPath - right? It is the only way to natively find an element by text and >> other advanced combinations as far as I know. >> > > Yep, great question. We are absolutely *not* removing > `document.evaluate()` or XPath generally. That's part of XML, not XSLT. > (Side note, there are other native methods such as NodeIterator / > TreeWalker, but those obviously don't offer such a compact way to search > for text content.) > > Thanks, > Mason > > > >> >> ☆*PhistucK* >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM Mason Freed <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thank you all, I appreciate it. I'll be back in a few months with an >>> update on the pre-stable experiment, plus any other feedback I've received. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mason >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM Mike Taylor <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> LGTM3 >>>> On 10/29/25 11:42 a.m., Chris Harrelson wrote: >>>> >>>> LGTM2 for the steps Vlad mentioned. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM Vladimir Levin <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey, we discussed this at API owners today. >>>>> >>>>> Generally, we're supportive of removing XSLT. As for the plan, I think >>>>> it would be best if we disable this in Canary as soon as possible (via >>>>> Finch) to find real breakages that we may be missing. Further, disabling >>>>> in >>>>> Beta and Dev shortly after to get more data is also good. >>>>> >>>>> LGTM1 for the plan with the above changes. We would like you to check >>>>> in with results of Canary / Dev / Beta and warning steps in 3 months to >>>>> see >>>>> how we proceed further. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Vlad >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, October 27, 2025 at 9:37:51 AM UTC-4 j.j. wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> see also >>>>>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1287 >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To view this discussion visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/4aa38aaf-702e-41d6-91f1-7ba8b18ff675n%40chromium.org >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/4aa38aaf-702e-41d6-91f1-7ba8b18ff675n%40chromium.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAOMQ%2Bw9BLUzVTz_-ioPp0ie%2Bn3g4gbS4wo5LvC3ZQLbzRzUa%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAOMQ%2Bw9BLUzVTz_-ioPp0ie%2Bn3g4gbS4wo5LvC3ZQLbzRzUa%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAM%3DNeDjFNC8jF%2BFchRke6SFnV-n6BUTe41qD0Y%3D1OpcxWeDNEA%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAM%3DNeDjFNC8jF%2BFchRke6SFnV-n6BUTe41qD0Y%3D1OpcxWeDNEA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/ec24fd78-d734-4249-bade-8ce598b55ae4n%40chromium.org.
