"How did we lose sight of the fact that this is the entire purpose of stylesheets? To separate the display of information for various devices/platforms/needs. So yea, they should provide a "netbook style", and any other. That's really the point of it all."
Seems to me, "a couple of years ago". That's when any real innovation in CSS seemed to cease.*
* I can hear people arguing already. By "innovation in CSS", I don't mean "cool, awesome tricks" like "being able to render strange bullets in pure CSS by bastardizing four divs, a span, and a dozen lines of stylesheet", or "a bargraph library that outputs pure CSS".
Those are cool, awesome tricks, to be sure, hacks, but the very definition of "solving the wrong problem".
