When it talks about XSL stylesheets, which in theory you can use to have all your documents be XML and transformed into HTML, it’s worth noting that this is a part of browsers that’s been neglected for over a decade, with the minimum of maintenance to keep it still roughly working, and it shows. The failure modes are bad, and a lot of it is very difficult to debug. It’s like opening a portal to how you’d develop pages fifteen or more years ago.
The worst problem I know of is that loading an XML file with an XSL stylesheet into a new tab in Firefox just hangs. Has done for years, and I still haven’t searched for a bug report about it (surely someone’s already reported it). Try opening https://kmaasrud.com/blogroll.xml in a new tab (Ctrl+click or whatever), and observe the correct document title, but how the actual document area remains blank and the status bar says it’s still “Transferring data from kmaasrud.com…”. A quick Ctrl+R and it loads just fine the second time.
The worst problem I know of is that loading an XML file with an XSL stylesheet into a new tab in Firefox just hangs. Has done for years, and I still haven’t searched for a bug report about it (surely someone’s already reported it). Try opening https://kmaasrud.com/blogroll.xml in a new tab (Ctrl+click or whatever), and observe the correct document title, but how the actual document area remains blank and the status bar says it’s still “Transferring data from kmaasrud.com…”. A quick Ctrl+R and it loads just fine the second time.