On 09/09/2010 09:05 PM, Alex Kozak wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but view source is sort of just a usability
shortcut.
Sure, anyone can wget the source. But very few people know that you
*can* wget the source, even fewer can use the command line to do so, and
I'm sure that doing so can easily be described as unauthorized access.
View Source in the browser makes learning about html easy, it makes it a
normal part of the technical operation of the client, and it makes it
legally something that people just do rather than any kind of act of
hacking.
It encourages, supports and defends the curiosity to learn about how the
system works. It has the form of a usability shortcut, but it means a
lot more.
> I can't imagine that ever changing.
Go to an Android phone, open the web browser, load freeculture.org, and
then try to look at the html.
It has changed.
(Fennec doesn't have View Source either. :-( )
- Rob.
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