That was part of the reason for inlining the CSS. The other part (which I didn’t explain in the post) actually came about because of Mosaic.
Even though it didn’t support CSS, it was aware of link tags and added a button to the top of the window for each one (literally linking to the referenced file). I couldn’t dig up a way to disable that within the code, so I went with the commented-out inline method to get the experience I was looking for.