TIL: Aladdin was Chinese (the character, not the tale).
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TIL: Aladdin was Chinese (the character, not the tale). He was from "one of the cities of Ancient China" before being recruited by the wizard from Maghreb to retrieve the ring and the lamp.
Also TIL that the two most famous stories in the 1001 Nights, Aladdin and Ali Baba, weren't actually in the 1001 Nights, but were added to the French version by Antoine Galland, who stole them from a Syrian storyteller in the 1700s, Ḥannā Diyāb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_DiyabThought they are in the style of folktales, it's likely that both are original fiction by Diyāb, who went uncredited for centuries.
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@evadm A parte gli scherzi, guarda che è raro parlare con una persona che si accorge del decadimento artistico in cui siamo finiti, perché nella società attuale ci sono solo 2 grandi gruppi: quelli che se ne fregano letteralmente dell'arte e quelli che si fanno piacere l'arte attuale, anche se in quest'ultimo caso non so se mentano a se stessi o si accontentano non avendo altro.
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@whitequark I'm not. XLST is perfect for what it does, which is to transform data.
Much of the difficulties in using it stem (1) from browsers getting suck at 1.0 for over the decades despite 2.0 having been out since 2007 (2) browsers not adopting XQuery and (3) browsers not providing meaningful messages on error.
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@whitequark flash is a proprietary technology, XSLT is an open standard.
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@whitequark @TheIdOfAlan it's a tag we shouldn't need because the browsers could trivially ship the polyfill themselves. But Google had been intent in killing XML (and RSS) for over a decade now, as part of their effort to destroy the open web, so this is what we get instead.
The WHATWH is not a good steward if the open web.
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@oblomov i'm just happy to see XSLT (mostly) gone
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@whitequark @curche there's a Rust implementation of it too, xee
which, as many things FLOSS without a huge company being them, is not yet complete, but still under active development.
Requiring JavaScript for static documents is unforgivably invasive.
