[dmos62]

Why is an HTML document the bare minimum? I absolutely appreciate this far more accessible form, author's dedication to function and disregard for showmanship. Somewhat paradoxically, for a potential client like me, this is way better marketing than any amount of superfluous CSS sugaring or formatting.

[recursive]

I think this text/plain presentation is a form of showmanship.

Put another way, do think there is ever any amount of CSS that is not superfluous?

[dmos62]

It's showmanship in that it's so nonstandard that it's theatrical. We shouldn't stigmatize that.

CSS can be non-superfluous in documents, like when formatting text or a table.

I'd like to focus on the fact that this required orders of magnitude less effort than designing a web site, and most importantly – the presentation did not suffer. There were no compromises to be made.

Some have mentioned that this lacks functionality, but I'm having a hard time imagining what that might be. Maybe mobile-readiness, in that it's preformatted. Considering that this is a Unix-y tool for power-users, I think it's ok to expect them to read this on a PC.

[bigj0n]

HTML is the standard form of internet document delivery, that's why it's the bare minimum. It's marginal effort to set up and objectively more accessible than not having a website.

I'm all for reducing complexity, but at this extent your are removing pretty huge pieces of functionality for extremely marginal streamlining.

It's a gimmick

[rhizome]

Why is an HTML document the bare minimum?

HTML isn't a technical requirement, but they do say their goal is to sell the service.