diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 710afd82d2..79b7cbb952 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -122,10 +122,7 @@ 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.)
 
-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
-executes before any other script).
+Append `?mode=raw` to make the example work in full debug mode. In raw mode the OpenLayers and Closure Library scripts are loaded individually by the Closure Library's `base.js` script (which the example page loads and executes before any other script).
 
 ## Running tests
 
diff --git a/bin/loader_hosted_examples.js b/bin/loader_hosted_examples.js
index 96be6e81f4..46b07bd0c8 100644
--- a/bin/loader_hosted_examples.js
+++ b/bin/loader_hosted_examples.js
@@ -54,20 +54,11 @@
     }
   }
 
-  var oljs = 'ol.js', mode;
-  if ('mode' in pageParams) {
-    mode = pageParams.mode.toLowerCase();
-    if (mode == 'debug') {
-      mode = 'raw';
-    }
-    if (mode != 'advanced' && mode != 'raw') {
-      oljs = 'ol-' + mode + '.js';
-    }
-  }
+  var raw = pageParams.mode && pageParams.mode.toLowerCase() === 'raw';
 
   var scriptId = encodeURIComponent(scriptParams.id);
-  if (mode != 'raw') {
-    document.write('<scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript" src="../build/' + oljs + '"></scr' + 'ipt>');
+  if (!raw) {
+    document.write('<scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript" src="../build/ol.js"></scr' + 'ipt>');
   } else {
     window.CLOSURE_NO_DEPS = true; // we've got our own deps file
     document.write('<scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript" src="../closure-library/closure/goog/base.js"></scr' + 'ipt>');