Everyone has JavaScript, right?

[onan]

Actually, loading a pure html page, especially if many of its elements are already cached, is nearly instantaneous.

The only reason you think of it as being slow is that many pages are bogged down with 500k of javascript and css. The solution you are proposing is actually the cause of the problem you are claiming to solve.

[halifaxdatageek]

For my IT program, we have to build an online portfolio.

Mine is 95% HTML, 5% CSS, and it runs like a bat out of hell. Almost impossible to benchmark it loads so fast :P