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Doing it on one of my sites actually causes a pretty significant performance issue, because there's a horizontal carousel with infinite scroll behaviour, which gets flattened into a vertical list which keeps loading more pages indefinitely. Glad that I've tried this, that's definitely a problem to fix.

Firefox used to have a menu "style" where you could toggle CSS files or just switch them off

On my site I have code[0] to automatically strip on local timezones. Always a fun "Oh its April 9th!"

[0]: https://github.com/boehs/site/blob/fc80a5d06e7c55ac445721249...

I feel like the first rule of nudity is that you also have to be naked or it’s weird. C’mon website, we’re waiting.

Why does the site have CSS then?

Somewhat related I think: I've been curious what others think. Is it taboo or poor taste in 2025 to have a site that is 100% text/plain with auto-indexing performed by the webserver? Are their any text/plain beautifiers that will format pages for people that like to read books? Such as adding page numbers, footers, structuring paragraphs correctly, making a table of contents with page numbers, converting hyperlinks. Is relying on the back button too much to ask?

I've been thinking about converting all my offliine-blog contents to purely text. I hard-block search engines so I would only care what humans and genetically modified primates think.

Are you ready to get naked?

  ['style','link[rel=stylesheet]','link[type="text/css"]'].forEach(selector => document.querySelectorAll(selector).forEach(e => e.parentNode.removeChild(e)));
  document.querySelectorAll('[style]').forEach(el => el.removeAttribute('style'));

My little page seems to pass (submitted things here previously, but it's not naked currently)

Totally forgot about this. My blog doesn't look too bad without CSS: https://theandrewbailey.com/x-naked