Desire for a more-easily-parsable HTML

[prototypo]

The Web Platform WG might reasonably support a subset of HTML 5.1 to serve as a long term maintenance recommendation. If you go down that path, please ensure that parsing does not require state keeping during parsing, e.g. by removing the necessity for multi-modal parsing. This might be of benefit to some mobile or computationally-constrained use cases.

A more-easily-parsable HTML 5.1 might include the following limitations:

• Compliance with the XHTML profile, and hence ability to parse into a tree structure with XML parsers;
• Disallowance of inline CSS;
• Disallowance of inline JavaScript.

[chaals]

Hi @prototypo

The first question is about implementation - is there a clear set of implementations that would converge to this? One possible approach is through the suggestion to standardise something like AMP - which not only has many of the properties you describe - although it also adds some cutting edge stuff and can evolve - but has a number of independent implementations.

[prototypo]

Hi @chaals

Yes, that approach would satisfy our perceived need. Thanks for the link.

[chaals]

Closing this and letting it incubate for now.

[LJWatson]

Where is this being incubated?

[chaals]

In WICG (and in practice, especially in China at the moment)