Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained

Proud user of noscript/basic (x)html browsers here.

Lynx and links (and I wanted to _code_ my own using netsurf libraries).

Restoring noscript/basic (x)html will only happen with hardcore regulation (or "tarif"/"gigantic fines"... same same...).

This is critical for the web, since that makes developing real-life alternative browsers a reasonable task from many pertinent perspectives.

The current technical landscape of the web is a disaster: a cartel of 2.5 absurdely and grotesquely gigantic web engines written in the most complex computer language out there which requires a compiler on the same complexity level... and there are only 2 of them from roughly from the same cartel/mob.

It seems that technical interop of the web with a very simple standard, stable in time and good enough to do the job is a 'competitive' issue of the small vs the big and should be handle by regulating administrations.

Remember, tons of web sites were noscript/basic (x)html compatible and doing a more than enough good job already... without insane technical dependencies...

The problem, for the sites I'm interested in, typically isn't the lack of JavaScript, but how the sites layout. Take Wikipedia, the content is perfectly fine in Lynx and Links, but the menus are defined at the top of the page, meaning that you'll need to scroll multiple pages to get to the actual article.

If you have website, which have actual content (text), it's pretty easy to ensure that it looks good and works in Lynx, with minimal effort.

Unreadable on a phone without zooming and panning. A little CSS wouldn’t be a bad thing here.

Should we blame an old timey basic webpage for its lack of complexity or should we blame a modern browser for not accommodating the web in its most simple form?

Lynx was great, but w3m + gpm for mouse input + fb for graphics was a revelation.