My thoughts about the state of the web and how to shape it are not the most interesting ones. They're fueled by articles and other pages I've read. I decided to link to a few here. Many more I've read and closed without saving the URL. But maybe I'll extend this list in the future so it becomes a curated reading list on the topic.
- Grazing the Web - "Grazing is similar to browsing, but the trees are shorter." About a sub-web of non-script-heavy web sites
- A comparison of text-based browsers - For making web sites most accessible, they should be perfectly usable with text browsers. This is a good summary of existing text-based web browsers for testing web sites or for daily usage.
- The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers - About the impossibility to create a new, competitive web browser
- I Love The Web - Thoughts on the role of personal web sites in the past and current web
- The Markdown Web - Suggests to use markdown instead of HTML
- https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html - About the two different parts of modern web. "On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web."
- smolweb - Promoting a simple unbloated web
- LuaML - An experimental markup language and 'browser' for it
- Project Gemini - Not web related, but thematically related
- Toot by @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social - Thread about what a new web browser needs to do/be
- @alcinnz@floss.social - Thread about web browser engine writing
- Web applications - Thoughts about web applications and web documents
Web Browsers and Engines
- grazer - grazer is like a web browser but trees are shorter
- Dillo - fast and small graphical web browser
- Servo - The embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
- Verso - web browser built on top of the Servo
- The Argonaut Constellation - range of software projects aiming to illustrate the potential for a more private JavaScript-free web
- NetSurf - multi-platform web browser - small as a mouse, fast as a cheetah