[smaddox]

That's an interesting idea. There could be a sort of markup language for describing the text and other elements. A sort of hyper-text markup language. And then there could be a separate declaritive language for styling. Of course, you'll need something less declaritive to implement advanced interactivity, but that could just be a small, simple scripting language.

:-)

[riwsky]

But if you did that, TCP/IP would no longer be a great fit. You’d want some sort of hypertext-specific transport protocol, I think.