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Something that I couldn't find much information on.. How exactly did the editing work? Could I edit a file and then once I'd saved the changes whoever went to t

Something that I couldn't find much information on.. How exactly did the editing work? Could I edit a file and then once I'd saved the changes whoever went to the file next would also see my edits? How did this all work? For me, this is absolutely fascinating and I guess in some ways this reminds me of modern wiki software (especially something like vimwiki that I use daily). If anyone has some 'technical' resources about how this browser worked, I'd love to read it.

bonaldi 8y ago
You can literally try it (and read about it) in the emulator itself!
- Sendotsh 8y ago
  No they can't, it got hugged to death and has been down since. > Service Unavailable > The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Plus the demo videos don't work on Firefox in Windows 10, and there's no screenshots or any other form of seeing the demo.
  - shakna 8y ago
    Here's a screenshot [0]. It appears one of the links in the article is wrong. The correct link is: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser [0] https://i.imgur.com/E9aTHJz.png https://i.imgur.com/E9aTHJz.png
    - Sendotsh 8y ago
      Thanks for the screenshot. The browser itself still 503s.
return0 8y ago
theoretically it would use PUT requests to save the files to the http server. it seems this wasnt implemented so it saved local .html files
- remysharp 8y ago
  PUT, DELETE, etc were part of HTTP/1.1. The WorldWideWeb browser (later called Nexus) was created during the time of HTTP 0.9 (or rather the versionless HTTP). I spoke to a few of the people involved in the original 1990s project and one big issue was authentication into servers was way too complex. The simulation (I wrote the JavaScript for it), writes to local browser storage (IndexedDB), the original WorldWideWeb would write to disk (networked or local).

bonaldi 8y ago

You can literally try it (and read about it) in the emulator itself!

Sendotsh 8y ago
No they can't, it got hugged to death and has been down since. > Service Unavailable > The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Plus the demo videos don't work on Firefox in Windows 10, and there's no screenshots or any other form of seeing the demo.
- shakna 8y ago
  Here's a screenshot [0]. It appears one of the links in the article is wrong. The correct link is: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser [0] https://i.imgur.com/E9aTHJz.png https://i.imgur.com/E9aTHJz.png
  - Sendotsh 8y ago
    Thanks for the screenshot. The browser itself still 503s.

return0 8y ago

theoretically it would use PUT requests to save the files to the http server. it seems this wasnt implemented so it saved local .html files

remysharp 8y ago
PUT, DELETE, etc were part of HTTP/1.1. The WorldWideWeb browser (later called Nexus) was created during the time of HTTP 0.9 (or rather the versionless HTTP). I spoke to a few of the people involved in the original 1990s project and one big issue was authentication into servers was way too complex. The simulation (I wrote the JavaScript for it), writes to local browser storage (IndexedDB), the original WorldWideWeb would write to disk (networked or local).