Problem statement :   HTML over Http offers ...leight weight document or text formatting and communications protocol.


Opportunity : While ...html ...document design always offers scope ...for provisions for clients with less 
              processing power or less capable clients or browsers

               ...for instance may refer to browsing the web-pages in GUI clients  ...contrastingly the
               same using lynx ...a command line browser utility.


             a) a parser ...that can stripe of the html formating ...display the same as plain text say ideally
                by interpreting every tag as a line break.

             b) a web-browser ....or GUI client that displays the formatted text as evisaged in the HTML/XML-CSS ...etc

                ...but ...with a customized CSS-embedded into the browser ...that over-rides the formatting in the
                document ...and applies the CSS...customized ...settings ...for text  

              
  .....evaluation and rationalization of a) and b) ...in the context of !!
  .....potential-scope of utilization 

       ...by deriving use-case scenario??
       ...say ...http based web-mail/mail-clients ...overiding Rich-text/html-formatting ...incomming mail,
                 mobile-clients-accessing-directory-servers

       ...custom-web-browsers ...for mobile/pda ...clients?? ...control...look..and..feel??
       ...[ability supress some elements or tags ...say image data ...translate dimensions of some tags 
           say span ...via the css]
          incomming http ...html ...streams

                 ...any competing technologies in vogue??

        ....scope ...and usage of XML-RSS-feeds ....in web-portals ...potential exploitation from the above 
            when using or depending on external source of information ...say news-feeds etc ...ability to
            maintain look and feel ...thus integrity of portals  

       also evaluating the scope and context of javascript ...VDU ...display area retrivability, CSS
       client-side text/content formatting and positioning.             

           
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Note: The above problem statement having been encountered in various scenarios
      and detailed in various 'Proof of concepts' as mentioned in 
      
       http://uk.geocities.com/ravivenkatus/projects.pdf
       http://ravishankarkv.tripod.com/projects.pdf
        ....apply appropriate
      'use-case' modeling, rationalize and arrive at a workable and feasible 
       solution both commercially and techinically viable.