The HTML 2.0 standard describes HTML as follows:

"The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are platform independent. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of domains. HTML markup can represent hypertext news, mail, documentation, and hypermedia; menus of options; database query results; simple structured documents with in-lined graphics; and hypertext views of existing bodies of information." [1]

This description stresses the terms simple and information. Today´s World Wide Web ecosystem is neither simple nor is its focus on informations. The large variety of representations for informations makes it difficult for the user to efficiently parse HyperText pages. This is especially true for handicapped persons. From a usability viewpoint the difference in usage patterns leads to problematic cognitive dissonances [2]. Trust in reliability and authenticity is often based on the layout of a page [3][4]. Besides discussable influences on public opinion this is a basic security risk. Phishing attacks work as the layout of a website resembles an original site. As such layout based security assumptions should be prevented.

In this project we aim to reduce HyperText documents to the required core of informations. Based on this core we will introduce user defined representations for elements. Default controls for elements will supersede script languages.

We hope that this model will have the following benefits:

• More efficient access to informations
• Reduction of access barriers
• Reduction of layout based security assumptions
• Decrease of script based attack vectors
• Better offline support for mobile devices
• Reduced data rate requirements