Use own HTML5Shiv

[Kroc]

Loading external scripts is bad, mmkay. It's less reliable, less trustworthy and sometimes slower. NNF should use it's own local HTML5Shiv script. I tried this before, but the script URL could not be fixed by the templater because it is in an HTML comment.

It's possible to wrap a node in an IE conditional comment (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4991998/adding-conditional-comments-using-domdocument) but this would first require that we fix up DOMTemplate with proper DOM manipulation: https://github.com/Kroc/DOMTemplate/issues/16

[sjehuda]

Consider using only XML, which means that if we use:

• a web browser, XML will be converted to HTML using XSLT.
• an RSS reader, the feeds will just show as RSS always does.

See #240

[Kroc]

XSLT support in browsers is buggy, rapidly bit-rotting and could be removed entirely at any moment. I tried this approach way back in 2008 and it wasn't viable then; even though it would be a simpler, more elegant solution! I cannot rely on Mozilla or Google to fix it since they keep dropping features they don't like, which included RSS.

[sjehuda]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 03:53:24 -0800 Kroc Camen @.***> wrote:

XSLT support in browsers is buggy, rapidly bit-rotting and could be removed entirely at any moment. I tried this approach way back in 2008 and it wasn't viable then; even though it would be a simpler, more elegant solution! I cannot rely on Mozilla or Google to fix it since they keep dropping features they don't like, which included RSS.

I do agree with your approach. I even wrote campaign articles and attached them into my program, including a quote from you.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/465932-newspaper

I'd be delighted if you would add to it.