Layers of the Web
summary
The web evolves by layering, not rewrites: a recreated 1989 browser lives at worldwideweb.cern.ch, showing backward compatibility alongside modern features. Practical claims: map TCP/IP → HTTP → URL → HTML → CSS → JS as pace layers; apply the principle of least power to choose HTML/CSS before JS. Demonstrations include Huffduffer and resilientwebdesign.com where a service worker caches entire books or serves custom offline pages, supports background sync and push (browser support variable), and turns sites into progressive web apps that actually work offline.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:48Where did the web come from
- 6:13The Influences
- 12:27The Author
- 12:47The Memex
- 13:25Douglas Engelbart
- 14:20Dont Andrew Hand
- 16:02Stuart Brand
- 17:54How Buildings Learn
- 21:15Paste Layers
- 24:32World Wide Web
- 30:09Binary Web
- 38:32Service Workers
- 42:57Use Cases
- 45:29Conclusion
