diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index d813ba7ea5..710afd82d2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -122,9 +122,6 @@ executing the `host-examples` build target:
 
 After running `host-examples` you can now open the examples index page in the browser, for example: <http://localhost/~elemoine/ol3/build/hosted/master/examples/>. (This assumes that the `hosted` directory is a web directory, served by Apache for example.)
 
-To make an example use `ol-simple.js` or `ol-whitespace.js` instead of `ol.js`
-append `?mode=simple` or `?mode=whitespace` to the example URL.
-
 Append `?mode=debug` or `?mode=raw` to make the example work in full debug mode. In
 full debug mode the OpenLayers and Closure Library scripts are loaded individually by
 the Closure Library's `base.js` script (which the example page loads and
diff --git a/bin/loader_hosted_examples.js b/bin/loader_hosted_examples.js
index d5dda87429..dfe727299f 100644
--- a/bin/loader_hosted_examples.js
+++ b/bin/loader_hosted_examples.js
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
  * This loader is used for the hosted examples. It is used in place of the
  * development loader (examples/loader.js).
  *
- * ol.js, ol-simple.js, ol-whitespace.js, and ol-deps.js are built
- * by OL3's build.py script. They are located in the ../build/ directory,
- * relatively to this script.
+ * The ol.js, ol-whitespace.js, and ol-deps.js scripts are built by OL3's
+ * build.py script. They are located in the ../build/ directory, relative to
+ * this script.
  *
  * The script must be named loader.js.
  *
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index 3aa65c1593..ffd90829b9 100755
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -127,8 +127,7 @@ virtual('ci', 'lint', 'jshint', 'build', 'build-all',
         'test', 'build/examples/all.combined.js', 'check-examples', 'apidoc')
 
 
-virtual('build', 'build/ol.css', 'build/ol.js',
-        'build/ol-simple.js', 'build/ol-whitespace.js')
+virtual('build', 'build/ol.css', 'build/ol.js', 'build/ol-whitespace.js')
 
 
 virtual('check', 'lint', 'jshint', 'build/ol-all.js', 'test')
@@ -148,12 +147,6 @@ def build_ol_new_js(t):
     report_sizes(t)
 
 
-@target('build/ol-simple.js', SRC, SHADER_SRC, 'buildcfg/ol-simple.json')
-def build_ol_simple_js(t):
-    t.run('node', 'tasks/build.js', 'buildcfg/ol-simple.json', 'build/ol-simple.js')
-    report_sizes(t)
-
-
 @target('build/ol-whitespace.js', SRC, SHADER_SRC, 'buildcfg/ol-whitespace.json')
 def build_ol_whitespace_js(t):
     t.run('node', 'tasks/build.js', 'buildcfg/ol-whitespace.json', 'build/ol-whitespace.js')
@@ -609,8 +602,7 @@ def host_examples(t):
         split_example_file(example, examples_dir % vars(variables))
     t.cp_r('examples/data', examples_dir + '/data')
     t.cp('bin/loader_hosted_examples.js', examples_dir + '/loader.js')
-    t.cp('build/ol.js', 'build/ol-simple.js', 'build/ol-whitespace.js',
-         build_dir)
+    t.cp('build/ol.js', 'build/ol-whitespace.js', build_dir)
     t.cp('build/ol.css', css_dir)
     t.cp('examples/index.html', 'examples/example-list.js',
          'examples/example-list.xml', 'examples/Jugl.js',
diff --git a/buildcfg/ol-simple.json b/buildcfg/ol-simple.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ceab0554c..0000000000
--- a/buildcfg/ol-simple.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "exports": ["*"],
-  "compile": {
-    "externs": [
-      "externs/bingmaps.js",
-      "externs/closure-compiler.js",
-      "externs/geojson.js",
-      "externs/oli.js",
-      "externs/olx.js",
-      "externs/proj4js.js",
-      "externs/tilejson.js",
-      "externs/topojson.js",
-      "externs/vbarray.js"
-    ],
-    "define": [
-      "goog.dom.ASSUME_STANDARDS_MODE=true",
-      "goog.DEBUG=false"
-    ],
-    "jscomp_error": [
-      "accessControls",
-      "ambiguousFunctionDecl",
-      "checkEventfulObjectDisposal",
-      "checkRegExp",
-      "checkStructDictInheritance",
-      "checkTypes",
-      "checkVars",
-      "const",
-      "constantProperty",
-      "deprecated",
-      "duplicateMessage",
-      "es3",
-      "externsValidation",
-      "fileoverviewTags",
-      "globalThis",
-      "internetExplorerChecks",
-      "invalidCasts",
-      "misplacedTypeAnnotation",
-      "missingGetCssName",
-      "missingProperties",
-      "missingProvide",
-      "missingRequire",
-      "missingReturn",
-      "newCheckTypes",
-      "nonStandardJsDocs",
-      "suspiciousCode",
-      "strictModuleDepCheck",
-      "typeInvalidation",
-      "undefinedNames",
-      "undefinedVars",
-      "unknownDefines",
-      "uselessCode",
-      "visibility"
-    ],
-    "extra_annotation_name": [
-      "api", "observable"
-    ],
-    "jscomp_off": [
-      "es5Strict"
-    ],
-    "compilation_level": "SIMPLE",
-    "output_wrapper": "%output%",
-    "use_types_for_optimization": false,
-    "manage_closure_dependencies": true
-  }
-}