August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion. August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334#comment4 August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563 Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.