Informal spec proposal to replace HTML with a size-capped, semantically versioned, strictly parsed, script-free alternative built for simplicity and anti-capture.
Key Takeaways
Spec size capped at 1.44 MiB compressed tar.gz, mirroring Dillo’s floppy-disk constraint to keep browser implementation costs low.
Semantic versioning (1.2.3) replaces the current living-standard model; published versions never change, enabling printed offline reference.
No scripting; interactive use cases delegated to native clients via open protocol links (e.g., Geo URIs for maps).
Explicit resistance to standard capture framed as a game-theory problem, targeting monopoly-driven complexity growth.
Hacker News Comment Review
Only one comment so far; the core skepticism is that complexity is an inevitable outcome of success and backward compatibility pressure, not a design failure.
