Re: Disabling "View Source"

Actually it is quite an annoyance.  What Navigator does (or did - I think NN
4 was the last version to do this) is not show you the contents of the page,
but rather the contents as rendered after passing though the JavaScript
interpreter.  Any JS that is used in the body of a page (in the case of the
page in question, the JS *is* the page) is rendered, and there was no way to
see the *actual* source.  The first time I hit it, it stymied me for longer
than it should have, and I warn my students about it so they won't be
similarly surprised.  MSIE does it the way it should be, and I understand
NN6+ does it that way now, too.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy J. Foster" <nancyf(at)quillandmouse.com>
To: "Andy Innes" <innax(at)icon.co.za>
Cc: "Linda Mercer/Wishstar" <catnip(at)ais.net>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: Disabling "View Source"


> Andy Innes wrote:
> >
> > The source code has been written in url-encoding. MSIE doesn't pick that
up
> > at view source - NN does. It's simple enough to get around if you're
really
> > trying, just use one of the numerous available url-decoder pages that
abound
> > for Flash interactive programmers.
>
> Ah! Another reason to prefer NN... :)

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