Peter Gutmann's X.509 styleguide is another prime example.
So much valuable information without any mental capacity wasted on bullshit like getting your collapsing margins to work like you expected them to work, and all this other web stuff.
Yeah I know about the irks of this protocol, but that doesn't mean we can start a new one with the same philosophy.
A simple and minimalistic approach to a menu listing, and content in extended markdown version we already use today. That will give you a fast way to fetch text and read it in the form you like: Want a big margin, 1.5em lineheight, green on black in a nice serif font? No problem! Just setup your client and you are good to go!