I updated the way my #RSS feed works by adding a reply via #email and fediverse link (some may have noticed). While I was at it, I also made the feed human readable with #XSLT!
Fun fact: had #ActivityPub object representation been #XML#RDF instead of #JSON, little more than a thin wrapper with #XSLT and #noJavaScript would have been sufficient to serve them on the web —statically.
@koneko Je pense plus à la fonctionnalité qui permet de transformer un document xml en html, personnellement pouvoir faire quelque chose d'équivalent avec du json-ld sans JS serait top.
So, I wanted to do a client-site embed of my #Mastodon#RSS feed via #XSLT into a page of my website, without using #JavaScript, but I'm having serious doubts that this is possible at all … anybody had any luck with this? #askFedi#fediHelp
OK, after having worked around the #Firefox deficiency, I've completed my client-side “embed my Mastodon RSS feed in my user profile page” on my website.
Can't say I'm unhappy with the result, even though some tuning is probably still necessary (those dates, for example …)
@Edent Yes. They simply didn't throw away what they had. I wouldn't expect them to improve anything, though. I seem to remember years ago there was also a Firefox bug that made scripts execute twice on such documents and nobody really cared about it. Might be still in there, haven't checked it since then.
@Paxxi I'm relying on the dramatist package for latex to do most of the actual formatting. My XSL is fairly small. And I live the look of a page typeset by #texlatex
@oblomov@atomicpoet I’m not sure there’s a strong case for Formatting Objects now in 2023
There was for a while, in print, but proper commercial DTP apps like InDesign and Affinity Publisher do the job far more interchangeably for the industry, nobody would be set up for a FO workflow but everybody in print is set up for standard DTP
The one thing FO had back then and CSS is only just getting round to now is the idea of not hard-coding up down left right – FO had block and inline sensibility from the core, with before and after etc, now CSS comes in with logical properties doing that sort of thing too
FO could conceivably have lived on as a specialist rendering mode for something like mobile television or at one stage I imagined it could be hammered into shape for VR, but in reality FO is pretty much dead
@oblomov@atomicpoet That reminds me, I actually took a chunk of time off in 2002 to write a book about XSL-FO for a major publisher (who gave me an advance!) and then it got cancelled as it went to print
“Design For Print With XSL–FO” Pearson/Addison-Wesley
They returned the contract and everything to me, I still have the copyright myself, they let me keep the advance because they cancelled it due to their department downsizing not the book being bad
…I looked at it again about a decade ago and concluded that it was all so out of date as to be useless and there being no point in publishing it again by myself, it’s dead