On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Alex Kozak <[email protected]> wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but view source is sort of just a usability
shortcut. Since the browser interprets the markup anyway (or rather, since
the server responds with markup to an http get request) the source will
always be available to the client in principle. I can't imagine that ever
changing.
AK
It can easily be changed. "game consoles" such as the X-Box-n
and the PS-n also render to the screen and to the loudspeakers
stuff sent over the Net. Yet, usually, it is not easy to view
source on these devices.
FC must fight to keep two things:
1. Our right to own a computer.
2. Our right to use the Net for private, tribal, business, and
public purposes.
Else there will be little culture except that which the
Englobulators arrange/allow.
oo--JS.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote:
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:42:35 +0100
From: Rob Myers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] Anti-Free Culture articles?
[snip]
that the web was "open" from the start (the protocols that Lanier is so
cirtical of, and the "view source" menu option that Android's browser
doesn't have, for example), but the rigorous adoption of free software
[snip]
Wait. Hold the phone. No View Source?
At the risk of hyperbole, I believe that "View source" is the single
technology that enabled the popular web. How else did everyone learn
broke-ass HTML but from reading others' code? (You know it wasn't
FrontPage.)
In fact, I was nearly giddy 2 days ago when I "view(ed) source" on the
interactive google logo and saw actual javascript code laid out right
in front of me!
I'll flip a car if View Source goes away.
K. Driscoll
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