> And without CSS we'll end up with Beige boxed web, all looking the same, behaving the same, and stuck in someone's idea of a sensible default. That'd be amaz

> And without CSS we'll end up with Beige boxed web, all looking the same, behaving the same, and stuck in someone's idea of a sensible default. That'd be amazing. I wouldn't have to manually kill awful anti-user elements on half the pages I visit, learn how some special snowflake interface works yet again, and so on. I'd know exactly when server communication was going to happen. I could set custom user styles to whatever I like, or, probably, select from the most popular user-submitted ones on some settings screen. Write applications if you want that stuff. It's not like the current Web would go away, if you wanted to write exceptionally bad applications in e.g. Electron or write "web apps". I'd just like a program I can open to browse a document-centric web that I know won't spy on me, or use stupid amounts of resources to show me some text while hijacking scrolling, or show me popup ads, or auto-play video, make me adjust zoom levels per-page for the best reading experience, or any of that stuff that makes the Web worse and that we cannot get rid of without ditching (or crippling) Javascript and CSS. An enormous percentage of the Web would be vastly better under such a system, and most of the rest would be better as a real, native application.