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Almost every single government organization uses it to publish their official documents. Lots of major corporations too. As much of a monopoly as Chrome is, if
by o11c 1y ago
Almost every single government organization uses it to publish their official documents. Lots of major corporations too.
As much of a monopoly as Chrome is, if they actually try to remove it they're likely to get a bunch of government web pages outright stating "Chrome is unsupported, please upgrade to Firefox or something".
- lucb1e 1y agoHuh? I mainly see official government documents as annoying PDFs. Thankfully someone had the bright idea to turn the national law's text into a proper webpage and not use an image-like format for that. (I think regional governments also publish laws as PDF though.) Double checking now, yes: that's definitely HTML and not a transformed XML Which government or governmental organizations are you talking about?
- mx7zysuj4xew 1y agoYes, PDF documents which are generated using XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) from an xml source document
- lucb1e 1y agoAh right, so that wouldn't be affected by this change because it happens all server-side if I understand it correctly?
- ndriscoll 1y agoLooks like someone pointed out in the related thread yesterday[0] that this little known site[1] is using it for client-side templating. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909599 [1] https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr3617/BILLS-117hr3617ih.xml https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr3617/BILLS-117hr3617ih....
- lucb1e 1y agoWould be a real shame if the world had a harder time engaging with that site (but I take your point that there exists at least government in the world that uses it)