❧ Of the Nature of Webpages ❧
In the year of our Lord two thousand and some, there arose a new form of manuscript, wrought not upon vellum nor parchment, but upon the ætheric substance known as "the Internet." These digital codices, called webpages, containeth within them illuminations most wondrous and texts of variable merit.
The craftsmen who fashion these works are called "developers," though in sooth they develop little beyond their capacity for coffee consumption. They toil through day and night, inscribing their incantations in languages arcane: HTML, CSS, and the mysterious JavaScript.
❧ A Bestiary of Code ❧
The Bug
A creature most vexatious, which dwelleth within code and causeth programmes to fail at inopportune moments. It is said that no developer hath ever gazed upon a codebase free of these pests.
The Deadline
A fearsome beast that approacheth always faster than anticipated. Those who fail to meet it suffer greatly in the court of management.
Here beginneth a Warning most Dire:
Let it be known that he who vieweth this website in Internet Explorer shall find only sorrow and malformed CSS. For it is written in the ancient scrolls: "This browser is no longer supported."
❧ Of Styles and Scribes ❧
The mediæval manuscript was illuminated by monks in scriptoria, who laboured under candlelight to create works of surpassing beauty. So too doth the modern developer labour under the glow of monitors, sustained by energy drinks and the promise of eventual retirement.
Through coffee-fueled days and sleepless nights,
Each semicolon placed with care,
Lest bugs should lurk in variables there.
The Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS, doth govern the appearance of all things digital, much as the guild rules once governed the crafts. Without it, webpages would appear as formless masses of text, pleasing to none save perhaps academics.
Nota Bene: This page hath been crafted in the style of mediæval manuscripts as a demonstration of CSS's power to transport the viewer across centuries. Whether this constitutes progress remaineth a matter of scholarly debate.
Explicit liber primus.
Deo gratias.
Scribed in the scriptorium of Everything,
Anno Domini MMXXIV