MySpace pages?

A little used browser feature is alternate style sheets. (View -> Page Style in Firefox.) This lets a site ship multiple CSS styles to the end user with some default. Example: https://developer.mozilla.org/samples/cssref/altstyles/index...

I think it's too late to get publishers to agree on any kind of sensible conventions within the wild wild web ecosystem. It would require a massive user exodus to an entirely different application for producing, sharing, discovering, consuming and commenting on content with no scripting and leaving presentation/theming up to the user. Just a simple document-oriented markup language, e.g. maybe a subset of DocBook. Ideally it would have no HTML/CSS/JS legacy baggage weighing it down so we can have our RAM back.

Not to mention the fact that by saying, "Just give us HTML and we'll do the rest", you're taking away their ability to push adverts and track you for that juicy, monetizable(?) tracking data.

I think this is why RSS did and is dying, although it also seems to be making a comeback.