diff --git a/public/blog/cern-day-3.md b/public/blog/cern-day-3.md index d48f29471..a0ee0f9c8 100644 --- a/public/blog/cern-day-3.md +++ b/public/blog/cern-day-3.md @@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ It's also the first and last day that the _whole_ team is together. Brian Suda a ## The working day -We're working out of a lab next to the data centre by day, arriving around 9am (having breakfast together at 8:30). We worked through to around 1:30pm breaking for lunch then returned to work until around 7pm. +We're working out of a lab next to the data centre by day, arriving around 9am (having breakfast together at 8:30). We worked through to around 1:30pm breaking for lunch then returned to work until around 7pm.  -The days previously had been broken up by visits and short expeditions and I was a little worried we needed full working days. Today we had that - and it was **intense**. +The days previously had been broken up by visits and short expeditions and I was a little worried we needed full working days. Today we had that - and it was **intense**. I suspect the rest of the week will be like this, particularly as the end of week deadline looms and my primary aim is to have a _nearly_ working simulation of the WorldWideWeb. @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ By the end of the working day, my eyes are sore and there's a constant low backg ## Excavation -Kimberly Blessing sitting next to me during the day has been working their way through the original source to the WorldWideWeb browser (more of a revisit of the work they did back in 2013's Line Mode Browser source). +Kimberly Blessing sitting next to me during the day has been working their way through the original source to the WorldWideWeb browser (more of a revisit of the work they did back in 2013's Line Mode Browser source). Kimberly has also been documenting the nuggets of hidden stories in the source written back in 1990. @@ -35,23 +35,23 @@ One function that I think is brilliant (in an über geeky way) is the `output_pa The parser expects to see the following "markup": ```text -This is my first paragraph, now if I wanted to break it up, +This is my first paragraph, now if I wanted to break it up, I'd use this following tag:
-Then this would be the second paragraph. Whereas in today's -browser parsers would see __this__ line as being *nested*, +Then this would be the second paragraph. Whereas in today's +browser parsers would see __this__ line as being *nested*, but in 1990's browsers, that tag only separates lines. ``` So there really wasn't a DOM at all. Of course not. This was pre DOM days. Tim Berners-Lee was parsing the text to render into a NeXT interface component like a `NSText` element. Probably closer to a RichTextFormat element. -You can see this in action on the Ted Nelson and Xanderdu page: +You can see this in action on the Ted Nelson and Xandadu page: - + You can see the paragraph lines separated, but in the original source there's no such thing (and a modern browser will render it completely differently): [http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Xanadu.html](http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Xanadu.html) -As Jean-François Groff put it*: +As Jean-François Groff put it*: > The WorldWideWeb was a word processor plus HTTP. @@ -71,4 +71,4 @@ Still, it's not looking too bad, all this is running and interactive in the brow  -Tomorrow (Thursday) will be wiring up modal boxes, opening URLs, implementing the "navigate" function (which is another geek-cool feature) and then onwards to _edit_. Just two days left 😱 \ No newline at end of file +Tomorrow (Thursday) will be wiring up modal boxes, opening URLs, implementing the "navigate" function (which is another geek-cool feature) and then onwards to _edit_. Just two days left 😱