Seeing this historic document in action!

[rhaleblian]

It is kind of funny to see someone post a feature request in this repo. :P
But these are just notes i wanted to share.

I don't have access to a NeXT machine now (though my old 90's research lab had two Cubes). Instead, a virtual machine is possible. Here's Project Builder and Interface Builder with the pertaining files loaded:

This is OPENSTEP 4.2 . By contrast, Sir Berners-Lee mentioned that he used NEXTSTEP 3.

[rhaleblian]

Anyone who has written Cocoa applications on older versions of macOS 10 should feel a haunting sense of familiarity.

[rhaleblian]

Not surprisingly, the developer API changed between 3.3 and 4.2. Some is just class renaming but a few things are now missing. Will try getting a 3.3 machine running.

[rhaleblian]

Builds on NEXTSTEP 3.3. It's crowded since i can't get bigger than 640x480 (VGA). Now that is old school.

When run, crashes when trying to use a file default.style which failed to load. Looks like one place to put that file is $HOME/WWW .

[rhaleblian]

WorldWideWeb/NextStep/Implementation/HTStyle.m

Line 64 in 62b3c9b

NXScanf(stream, "%s%i%s%f%i",

begins to give us hints as to the format of a stylesheet.

[rhaleblian]

Opens the initial page, albeit with no interesting styling.

[rhaleblian]

My previous stylesheet can crash the app, so i put in some guards while a legal definition gets devised.

[rhaleblian]

Just saw the CERN has an emulation of the app.
https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/

[rhaleblian]

Oops. The repo does have the required startup stylesheet; however, if you do a make clean in the project, it will be deleted.

Since networking isn't working in my virtual machine, fetching a remote page is unexciting:

[RemoPro]

I downloaded the compiled WorldWideWeb.app from cern.ch 2.5 years ago. The app is only 155 KB in size. should I upload it?

[rhaleblian]

http://nextcomputers.org has versions of the app, one of them might match the one you have.
They keep a file area.

[markusbkk]

I wonder how close this would get to running under GNUStep.