Forking the Web
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- #Specification Design
- #Web Standards
- #Simplicity
- The document outlines goals for creating an alternative web specification to address current drawbacks, focusing on simplicity, semantic versioning, and a strict grammar.
- Key goals include limiting the specification size to 1.44 MiB for simplicity, using semantic versioning for stable standards, and enforcing a strict grammar to reject non-compliant pages.
- The specification aims to prioritize text as the primary medium, avoid scripting, and resist standard capture by monopolistic entities, while reusing HTML where possible but emphasizing ease of parsing.