Liam. Good evening.
On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 21:30:41 -0000
"Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 10:30:17 -0000
> "Schimon Jehudah sch@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > <noxsl>
> > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=?xsl=0"/>
> > </noxsl>
>
> Ibm guessing you really mean noxslt (xsl includes XSL-FO, the
> formatting spec).
>
Yes. tag "noxslt" be better.
> Is the idea that if XSLT is not supported in the browser, the browser
> will do a page reload adding xsl=0 to the URL?
>
> If so, you might conceivably get some traction from browser people,
> but the case where server is being maintained and someone can add
> markup is much less interesting to me than the case where pages and
> whole sites simply stop working.
>
I think that I would have good arguments for it.
> This particular suggestion has the disadvantages that any browser or
> agent that doesn't understand it will see the meta header, and also
> that if you put this in the head, the noxsl element ends the HTML
> head.
>
Perhaps, so.
Maybe, adding a comment should suffice.
<!--
Grreetings.
If you see this message, then it means that your software dies not
support XSL Transformations.
Please update to one of these software to view this document.
* Falkon
* Otter Browser
* qutebrowser
-->
> Maybe you could use noscript instead, since if you have JavaScript
> available you could do a redirect from there by looking for
> window.xsltProcessor.
>
Yes. That is planned.
I will be adding server-side directives to attempt to detect XSLT and
JS, with tests.
> liam
>
Thank you for your respond.
Best,
Schimon
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