[analog31]

Could the browser tackle this? If I understand it correctly, in broad strokes, nothing comes down unless the browser asks the server for it.

I'm dating myself, but when I first learned about HTML, the idea was that text would be organized so the browser could make it more readable for you, based on your needs. For instance, a deaf person could use a text-to-speech browser, and perhaps the heading tags would help them navigate the document.

Today's web page simply treat the screen as a graphical canvas.

In those old days, I also learned that having a crummy obsolete browser for my crummy obsolete computer actually sped up browsing because my browser was simply incapable of downloading the stuff that ate bandwidth.