On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Kevin Driscoll 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.)
I agree with you, Kevin.
Maybe the Android team would accept a patch to add this missing feature. I
think the browser app itself is free software, and you can get its source
code.
-- Asheesh.
--
A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you.
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