We're always saying to each other, HTML + CSS is wrong. We like PDF & PS & troff and plumbing on http://example.com/cod.pdf will open it in the pdf viewer.

fmthtml turns web pages into plain text.

But ignoring the majority of web content is really not an option. HTML can be pretty lightweight, we do have some renderers that do HTML3 and a subset of CSS really well and there's also Abaco that does a good job with HTML4, we've even got a canvas widget!

We could probably port WebKit if only we had a native C++ compiler but the incentive to do that is pretty low, we've got other cool beans to play with and you can pick up a dedicated Web browsing machine is less than the price of a round of drinks.