It's useful to keep in mind however that Firefox also has the "View Selection Source" context menu item that opens view-source with the dynamic content of the selection.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Gareth Aye <[email protected]> wrote: > Fair enough. I probably won't use it, but if other developers want that and > it's generally understood to be the static html file, then I am happy. > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:49 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > (Adding dev-developer-tools as well, in case others on the team have > > comments.) > > > > I usually think of it the same way as Sam above, view-source has an > > expected meaning of the server's response. If it happens you're > > looking at an app that generates its content client side, then there > > won't be much to see in that view. > > > > - Ryan > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Sam Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > > > my 2c: View-source has a well defined meaning at this point; if a > button > > > says view-source, I expect the (static/server-response) source, not the > > > document outerHTML. If what you really want is a snapshot of the markup > > > *now*, you look for DOM inspector / inspect element function instead. > > > View-source gets you in at the ground floor, and you can navigate from > > there > > > to the page's resources. It may not end up being that useful for a page > > like > > > Calendar/index.html, maybe there's a UI solution to toggle between > > inspector > > > and view-source. > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Gareth Aye <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Hey fxos people, > > >> > > >> *Background* > > >> > > >> Calendar (like many gaia apps) is a single page application. We still > > use > > >> urls internally for navigation and that came up recently for 2.5 view > > source > > >> since our client-only urls (/month, /week, /event/add, etc) were > > confusing > > >> view source which wanted to map urls to html files. > > >> > > >> My question is about the usefulness of view source if it grabs a > static > > >> html file instead of a dump of the active html. Calendar's html file > > lacks a > > >> lot of components which are lazily loaded. I don't use view source > > typically > > >> (usually I inspect element). Is view source (over inspect element) a > > popular > > >> desktop feature and what do developers use it for? Are we okay with > the > > fact > > >> that our apps' html files (and probably a significant overall > > percentage of > > >> mobile web apps) will lack a lot of ui components which are > dynamically > > >> loaded? > > >> > > >> (Entirely possible that I am missing something, so don't hesitate to > > tell > > >> me if my premises are totally off.) > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> Gareth > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> dev-fxos mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > >> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dev-fxos mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-developer-tools mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-developer-tools >
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