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afavour commented on Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes github.com/Evidlo/xsl-web... · Posted by u/Evidlo

troupo · 17 hours ago

> OP is talking about XSLT support going behind a flag, you’re citing XSLT deprecation going behind a flag.

Literally from my link:

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Add a feature flag to disable XSLT

This adds a feature flag that disables:

- XSLTProcessor

- XSLT Processing Instructions

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afavour · 16 hours ago

Literally from my comment:

> The default state matters (and the default state is undeprecated)

OP said “ But they did anyway”, and they did not

afavour commented on Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes github.com/Evidlo/xsl-web... · Posted by u/Evidlo

troupo · 19 hours ago

Tracking issue: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334

Add flag to disable XSLT: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/68...

It's approved, I don't know which release it will be.

Additionally, quote from the GitHub discussion:

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Q: why has Chrome already started working on removing the feature from the browser?

A: To explore the effects of removal. It's hard to tell what will break without being able to turn it off and see.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582#issuecomment-320...

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afavour · 18 hours ago

> The GP asked for a citation for XSLT support going behind a flag in the next version of Chrome

> Add flag to disable XSLT

Two very different things. OP is talking about XSLT support going behind a flag, you’re citing XSLT deprecation going behind a flag. The default state matters (and the default state is undeprecated)

It makes sense that the Chrome team would do what they’re doing, otherwise it’s very difficult for anyone to assess the impact of XSLT deprecation.

afavour commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl

boppo1 · a day ago

Sources? Havent heard of deaths except total idiots sleepping at 80mph.

afavour · a day ago

You don't need to cite accidents when you're stating the true fact that the system is not approved for unattended use.

afavour commented on What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents? shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/edent

biggestfan · 2 days ago

Does anyone even use share buttons? I always just copy the link, and it seems that anyone I see sharing things does the same. It feels more like a way for the social media companies to advertise/track, and those sites have been sending less and less traffic for years, so I wonder why every site still has them.

afavour · a day ago

Yeah, they do. We’ve hooked up analytics to test it in the past and the average user absolutely uses them.

afavour commented on Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash tampabay28.com/news/state... · Posted by u/bilsbie

ozim · 2 days ago

Logical answer is to get reasonable people to vote when HOA is having vote.

Don’t let Karen and her buddies run the meetings.

People nagging about HOA seems like are not owners or not knowing how HOA works o r supposed to work.

afavour · 2 days ago

Same problem you have with any kind of local government: time. Busybodies with too much time on their hands will dominate. People who actually have lives to lead don't have the time to compete.

afavour commented on Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash tampabay28.com/news/state... · Posted by u/bilsbie

bearjaws · 2 days ago

There will need to be some sort of carve out for towers, condos, townhomes etc.

I cannot imagine running a building without an HOA, or some form of it. Who pays for the external repairs? Who pays for shared staff?

AC units for a highrise are $2-5M, who is saving for that?

This is just typical lawmaker BS, "oh I am going to do away with it", no real plan.

If anything just remove the HOA bylaws that are clearly violating peoples rights, like not being able to have cars in your drive way or only display flags certain ways.

afavour · 2 days ago

Agreed. The logical answer here is to limit the things HOAs can and cannot do rather than ban them outright. But that doesn't make for a good headline.

afavour commented on 24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville thedrive.com/news/this-24... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

demarq · 2 days ago

> the company’s engineers left Formula 1 to work on scooters “because we think electric scooters are the most important vehicle innovation of this century.”

I laughed out loud. Start up PR is a competition for “what’s the most absurd thing we can say”

afavour · 2 days ago

I actually don’t think it’s that absurd. It definitely is hype but I think e-scooters and (far more) e-bikes actually are a huge innovation in personal transport, not in pure tech but in effect on lifestyles especially when you factor in cost.

I have a cargo e-bike I use as my daily driver, taking the kids to school, picking up groceries etc. If they didn’t exist I’d probably have to pay for (and deal with) a car. A lot of food delivery drivers are on e-bikes. If governments fully embraced them they could change the way a lot of cities look.

afavour commented on Pixel 10 Phones blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium

mg · 3 days ago

The people at Google seem to think much more like me than the people at Apple.

There are 3 primary decisions Google made that click with me, while Apple's choices are a mystery to me:

1: When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable. Because the backside is symmetrical. When I put an iPhone on a table, it wobbles.

2: When I sort my photos on a Pixel, I sort them in folders. The "camera" folder is where the unsorted photos are. When I sit in a bus or in a cafe, I go through it and sort the new photos into folders. This seems impossible on iPhones. Everything stays in the main folder forever. You can add photos to albums, but that does not remove them from the main folder. So there is no way to know which photos I have already sorted.

3: On Android I can use Chrome. Which means web apps can use the File System Access API. This makes web apps first class productivity applications I can use to work on my local files. Impossible on iPhones.

I'm sure people who prefer iPhones have their own set of "this clicks with me on iPhones and puzzles me on Pixels" aspects?

Is this a "left brain vs right brain" type of thing? Do most HNers prefer Androids?

afavour · 3 days ago

I’m a former Android user (bought a Nexus One on release!) that switched to iOS many years ago and I don’t miss Android as much as I thought I might.

To me the biggest thing to reflect on is how depressing it is that we must all fit ourselves into one of two boxes. My kingdom for a flourishing mobile OS ecosystem where we can all find the exact combination that scratches our itches.

afavour commented on Pixel 10 Phones blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium

jamesponddotco · 3 days ago

I can sort my photos in folders (or albums) in iOS, not sure what you mean? I can have personal and shared albums, unless you mean the fact you don’t have that in the filesystem, in which case I completely agree.

I’m a Firefox guy myself and web apps are not something I care about for privacy reasons, but I agree that not having the option is a bummer.

The camera bump never really bothered me on the iPhone or the Pixel Fold I had before this iPhone. I just don’t notice it, but then again, I also didn’t notice the crease in the fold.

I miss Tachiyomi though. Panels is nice, but I had to built a whole OPDS-proxy to a manga website to have something close to Tachiyomi. Oh, and the ability to turn off network access on a per-application basis that came with GrapheneOS (plus the security of GrapheneOS itself).

While I prefer Android and Pixels (using GrapheneOS), I have switched my family to the Apple ecosystem to have a middle ground between privacy and features, so I’m not coming from an “I love Apple and everything else sucks” background, mind you.

afavour · 3 days ago

I think OP is describing using their main Photos album as an inbox of sorts, emptying it out by filing photos away. On iOS even when you add a photo to an album it still exists in the main album.

afavour commented on Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again nytimes.com/2025/08/19/te... · Posted by u/voxadam

Nevermark · 4 days ago

What companies did Elon Musk start? [0]

[0] https://kagi.com/search?q=What+companies+did+Elon+Musk+start...

afavour · 4 days ago

Unsurprisingly the AI agent is wrong. For one, Musk did not start Tesla.