We lost this battle by 1999. And again when we started to deliver full web applications instead of documents.
I wish we had a second protocol that was more document and information focused. Something that gave zero control over programming or layout to providers.
I just want to exchange information P2P in a dense swarm approximating modern social media. I want to use my own client configured how I like it to choose what to ingest and how to flag it and present it.
Without layout or programming (functionality)...is that not just json??
And if you consider "structure" to be "layout"...then...a txt file?
Unf I don't see the point here. You're basically just describing an api endpoint and a custom client.
Hyper scale businesses captured most of the internet's value and humans and turned tech into a series of walled gardens for eyeball attention doom scroll maximization. Retweeting the for you page is what some committee of product managers decided was best for us all. Who are we to question the architectures of power?
It almost sounds like a perverse weird utopia to imagine a world where we controlled all of the information flows ourselves. I can't think why we should have all the power.
Not sure how we could expect users to switch between whatever font they want, and things not breaking.
Different fonts both appear and have different sizes, so what might look perfect with one font (a button where the text is aligned in the center vertically/horizontally), can look massively different with another (say the font's characters are wider, so now the text either overflows or breaks into two parts, making the button "broken").