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I seriously think we need an alternative to HTML that axes styling and scripting and concentrates solely on the markup / content description. Websites would use a certain set of elements/descriptors to describe the content they contain. The user’s website reader would parse the markup / content description and display a page how it thinks it should be displayed (according to the user’s preferences). All websites would have the same styling – the one chosen by the user. This HTML alternative could provide an API that makes it possible to have dynamic websites but still prevents scripting and fingerprinting.


Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15611122 (2017Nov:1307 points, 502 comments)

#oneofus https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13226170&type=comment (click a 'comments' link on the search results, then 'parent')

I've connected similar sentiment here for about a year now; I've appreciated mention of several helpful tools in this thread.


A nice start would be browser support for Content-Type: text/markdown.


Sounds like HTML, and a browser. (Sad.)

Perhaps Firefox's Reader View would be suitable, when activated.


Something like a schema for a restricted subset of XHTML?




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