"Marc Andreessen" suggested something like that at the bottom of this: http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/2.html (search for "separate content from presentation")

I thought the whole point of css was to separate content from presentation. But it only seems to be used for reskinning sites and - occasionally - for producing a "printer view". I suppose I could pretend to be a printer. But can I not instead just pretend to want to read the text?

> It would be fantastic if there was a standard format like you suggested

I thought that's what HTML was supposed to be …

Somehow it turned into a portable runtime instead.