Re: [OT] JavaScript and the DOM

[Bec C]

IE dev tools should have the option to see the generated source

On Sunday, 20 September 2015, Greg Keogh  wrote:

> Folks, back in the mid 1990s as a challenge I wrote a web page with some
> raw JavaScript in it to generate a large table of random but vaguely
> realistic looking email addresses (using letter distribution frequencies).
> It was folklore back then that pages like this would "poison" spam address
> harvesters.
>
> Almost 20 years later I'm still getting daily 404 requests for that
> ancient page, so I found a copy, modernised it a bit and it still works.
> BUT ... in IE's View Source you do not see any of the html emitted by the
> script. Is by design? Does it mean that the spam harvesters would never
> drink their poison?
>
> Technically, I'm surprised that the browser is ignorant of script changes
> to the DOM. Can anyone explain the behaviour?
>
> *Greg*
>

[OT] JavaScript and the DOM

[Greg Keogh]

Folks, back in the mid 1990s as a challenge I wrote a web page with some
raw JavaScript in it to generate a large table of random but vaguely
realistic looking email addresses (using letter distribution frequencies).
It was folklore back then that pages like this would "poison" spam address
harvesters.

Almost 20 years later I'm still getting daily 404 requests for that ancient
page, so I found a copy, modernised it a bit and it still works. BUT ... in
IE's View Source you do not see any of the html emitted by the script. Is
by design? Does it mean that the spam harvesters would never drink their
poison?

Technically, I'm surprised that the browser is ignorant of script changes
to the DOM. Can anyone explain the behaviour?

*Greg*