Piping curl into a pager

E.g.
$ curl www.google.com | sed '/<[^>]*>/d' | less

Could this be used as the basis for a text-based browser? Curl has POST and cookies support too, and Guile Scheme could be used instead of javascript.

>>1
This idea is absolutely retarded.

But I was also wondering why people don't do this >>42. Lots of people would use a good terminal browser, so why is there no interest in creating/forking one?

And no, using elinks as-is is not ideal, as >>52-san says.