whatever you do with xslt you can do it in a saner way, but whatever we need to use serial/bluetooth/webgpu/midi for there is no other way, and canvas is massively used.
I'd love to see more powerful HTML templating that'd be able to handle arbitrary XML or JSON inputs, but until we get that, we'll have to make do with XSLT.
For now, there's no alternative that allows serving an XML file with the raw data from e.g. an embedded microcontroller in a way that renders a full website in the browser if desired.
Even more so if you want to support people downloading the data and viewing it from a local file.
If you're OK with the startup cost of 2-3 more files for the viewer bootstrap, you could just fetch the XML data from the microcontroller using JS. I assume the xsl stylesheet is already a separate file.
Of course there is a better way than webserial/bluetooth/webgpu/webmidi: Write actual applications instead of eroding the meaning and user expectations of a web browser. The expectation should not be that the browser can access your hardware directly. That is a much more significant risk for browsers than XSLT could ever be.
kuschku|6 months ago
For now, there's no alternative that allows serving an XML file with the raw data from e.g. an embedded microcontroller in a way that renders a full website in the browser if desired.
Even more so if you want to support people downloading the data and viewing it from a local file.
lmz|6 months ago
account42|6 months ago