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code: subweb
home: /subweb/
sourcehut: subweb
title: SubWeb
subtitle: "A Safe, Small, Plain, Subset of the Web"
summmary: "A safe, small, plain subset of of the World Wide Web aiming at improving privacy, security, compatibility and simplificity of web pages."
content-type: project
conver: true
active: true 
changelog: true
stage: prototype
version: 000-F
license: CC-BY-4.0
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> **Notice**
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> This document is an initial draft, essentially just a collection of notes and headings for now! 


### Introduction

Today's World Wide Web is huge, and is very different from the original vision of its creators. More often then not, web sites are bloated, exceeding complex, rely on scripts to function, and try to extort as much personal information as possible by employing several privacy-invasive techniques.

A lot of web sites are not even _sites_ anymore, they are _apps_, and the web itself became a _platform_ rather than a place to publish hypertexts.

While the majority of people are now well-used to spend their time on the web within walled gardens, they don't notice or care about the bloat, the invasive adverts, and the dark patterns that plague this new World Wide Web, there are still some people that care about the Web's original vision, about a text-first experience, without ads or unsafe content, and bloat-free. 

This document attempts to fix what's broken on today's Web by advocating for simpler web sites, and simpler specifications. This is SubWeb, a safe, small, and simple subset of the Web.

### Goals

The three main goals of SubWeb are the following:

- Safety
- Compatibility
- Simplicity

#### Safety

#### Compatibility

#### Simplicity

### Prior Art

#### Gemini

#### SmolWeb

### Specifications

#### SubHTML

#### SubCSS

### About

### License

[Creative Commons — CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)