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You can also go to the extreme of "jpeg over the wire". Your "web browser" could probably be implemented in <1000 lines of of code ;) No state, no cookies, no million lines of bundled JavaScript.

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If a "real" browser is used that needs javascript to request a jpeg of a size appropriate for the screen.

There might be something that's good enough through css, not sure.

Little problems with scrolling but constant updates when a page is resized (changes in layout) - maybe it's worth it...

You could probably split up the image into smaller pieces (let's call it slicing), put them together in a table, and only update the cells that changed.

Add "no scrolling" to my list. None of the military-industrial browsers that I built in the late 80s and early 90s had scrolling.

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