The Webless Initiative

See the Anti-web Manifesto

The Webless Initiative is a campaign to make the modern Web a more livable place. We aim to accomplish this by:

• Discouraging useless "style" or "interactive" features
• Encouraging fast, portable, readable pages, with simpler HTML

This should:

• Make web browsers potentially a lot smaller, faster and comfortable
  (realistically, make it possible to use existing small web browsers)
• Drastically lessen the necessary bandwidth, making more room for real content

We plan to provide a set of rules and recommendations for anyone who wishes to make their web page conformant. There will be an automatic validator for this ruleset.

We plan to create and maintain two lists of websites, with an appropriate label or banner site owners can publish to indicate their membership:

• Friends of Webless

  Simply by expressing their wish, anyone can be part of this list. The only condition is that their site is comfortably usable with a small web browser.

  This might be manually checked, and Webless might refuse to keep the site listed, if we perceive that it does not meet this rule.

• Validated Webless

  Membership on this list is per request. The site will be checked (and may be periodically rechecked) against the Webless Rules. Only sites passing these tests will be listed.

We ask that listed (friends and validated) sites place a link on this page. This is not mandatory; and the link might serve as a disclaimer for when visitors are asking why your page is lacking all the modern whizbang.

Contact

For the moment, if you want to see your site on either the Friends or the Validated list, please send me a mail (see address below).

Recommended Reading

• Viewable with Any Browser
• Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003
• Why CSS should not be used for layout

Contact

You can reach us on IRC: server repo.hu, channel #dev.

Via e-mail: webless (at) igor2.repo.hu