The Webless FAQ

• Why are you allowing HTML design elements (like bgcolor etc.) ?
  We are not against design in itself. We don't want to turn HTML into a document description language.

• Why do you want to drop CSS? I love CSS! It separates content and design!
  
  1. No it doesn't.
  2. It is also extremely big, hard to implement, and impossible to implement well. Today's computers are orders of magnitude faster than they were a few years ago - but the Web experience is actually worse; we think it's mostly CSS and its ilk's fault.
  3. Note: the Friends List doesn't prohibit CSS as long as the page is comfortably usable with a browser that doesn't support CSS.

• So, how do you propose to "separate content and design"?
  
  1. Whatever you put in HTML already specifies design, so you have to do it on your server side with templates or something, if you want.
  2. Or actually, don't. This is one of the smaller problems with the Web; doing this well would require a complete redesign, and the world is way past that point.
  3. It might be high time to consider simplicity, usability, readability more important than how elegant your styling system is, or how you can move your three boxes from the right column to the bottom row without changing your software. (You have too many boxes!!)

• My HTML will look much uglier!
  Well, tough. On the other hand, it will probably render ten times faster, and on more platforms, too. We consider this more important. (Obviously, if you use a font tag for your every letter, it might be slower. But then you're doing it wrong.)