I may not have expressed myself clearly, but I understood what OP was saying. Never overnight and post, kids.
I was thinking about something like Stylish or the user stylesheet I've been hearing about in Firefox (for their UI IIRC, but still). Inject some global css on older/missing doctypes, and it's probably less than 200 total declarations to handle every older tag. I'd imagine <font> to be the hardest and/or longest, followed by <blink> and <marquee>.
Would be a small extension.
My other point I think I expressed clearly enough, that the loss of presentational markup is not a loss of content in most cases. If the title is in Times New Roman instead of Arial, most of the time it'll just look worse. Unless the content is meta, the presentation is to make things more pleasant to read.
Not sure I'm getting you… An extension to view old pages? This is the worst idea I've heard in a long time. The web is awesome partly because it's backwards compatible.
I was thinking about something like Stylish or the user stylesheet I've been hearing about in Firefox (for their UI IIRC, but still). Inject some global css on older/missing doctypes, and it's probably less than 200 total declarations to handle every older tag. I'd imagine <font> to be the hardest and/or longest, followed by <blink> and <marquee>.
Would be a small extension.
My other point I think I expressed clearly enough, that the loss of presentational markup is not a loss of content in most cases. If the title is in Times New Roman instead of Arial, most of the time it'll just look worse. Unless the content is meta, the presentation is to make things more pleasant to read.