Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion. August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334#comment4 August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563 Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.
  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

    That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.

    For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.

    There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.