View source android app anyone?

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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