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I did something similar years ago with xslt rendering xml in browser. It used an xsl stylesheet loaded in the xml itself, similar to this approach. It was a pai

I did something similar years ago with xslt rendering xml in browser. It used an xsl stylesheet loaded in the xml itself, similar to this approach. It was a pain to debug, and I'd imagine this approach is easier because tooling has caught up with this sort of thing. I use httpsb so this comes through as a pile of text until I allow the js to do its thing. I'm ok with this, since a browser plugin that does markdown would work here too. Sometimes I miss things like Archie that had very small network footprints due to technical requirements of the past. They really were able to focus on the content, like this solution.

X-Istence 12y ago
I loved the idea of using XSLT rendering to take an well formatted XML document and process it client side in the browser, but it came with more problems than it solved. The tooling was terrible to accomplish it, but different browsers reacted slightly different to the XSLT, some had a flash of unstyled XML followed by it rendering the page using XSLT, JavaScript didn't work right since the page had to be served as XML not as HTML, Adsense my ad network at the time didn't work with it either. XSLT had potential, but it never really caught on, and now we just have JavaScript frameworks that do all the rendering client side using JavaScript instead.
- th0ma5 12y ago
  I noticed a similar flash with this project, although the end result is very cool, and to think except for links, this is somewhat all Lynx compatible.
- zokier 12y ago
  The obvious solution would be to create XSLT processor in JavaScript to override the browsers processing. (no, don't do that, i was just joking)
mbrock 12y ago
Blogging shit is too complicated in all kinds of ways. Think for a second about why we're writing here of all places. All kinds of people write insightful stuff here for no reason other than that they're bored at work or because someone is wrong. Because it's utterly simple and text-based. It's a medium of communication, not a flashy thing to create your individual brand and promote yourself as an author and blah-blah-blah. I wish people would always think about why certain places on the web become popular in such a way that they integrate themselves into peoples' lives and let them easily express their natural spontaneous creativity. HN, reddit, LiveJournal, Craigslist, mailing lists, Usenet, forums, GeoCities, IRC, BBS, etc. They all obviously focus on "content." More importantly they get out of the way and let human beings communicate without hinders.

X-Istence 12y ago

I loved the idea of using XSLT rendering to take an well formatted XML document and process it client side in the browser, but it came with more problems than it solved. The tooling was terrible to accomplish it, but different browsers reacted slightly different to the XSLT, some had a flash of unstyled XML followed by it rendering the page using XSLT, JavaScript didn't work right since the page had to be served as XML not as HTML, Adsense my ad network at the time didn't work with it either. XSLT had potential, but it never really caught on, and now we just have JavaScript frameworks that do all the rendering client side using JavaScript instead.

th0ma5 12y ago
I noticed a similar flash with this project, although the end result is very cool, and to think except for links, this is somewhat all Lynx compatible.
zokier 12y ago
The obvious solution would be to create XSLT processor in JavaScript to override the browsers processing. (no, don't do that, i was just joking)

mbrock 12y ago

Blogging shit is too complicated in all kinds of ways. Think for a second about why we're writing here of all places. All kinds of people write insightful stuff here for no reason other than that they're bored at work or because someone is wrong. Because it's utterly simple and text-based. It's a medium of communication, not a flashy thing to create your individual brand and promote yourself as an author and blah-blah-blah. I wish people would always think about why certain places on the web become popular in such a way that they integrate themselves into peoples' lives and let them easily express their natural spontaneous creativity. HN, reddit, LiveJournal, Craigslist, mailing lists, Usenet, forums, GeoCities, IRC, BBS, etc. They all obviously focus on "content." More importantly they get out of the way and let human beings communicate without hinders.