The original source isn't the same that what's shown on the screen, so using that would make Firebug absolutely useless to debug any dynamic page.
On 7 jun, 08:38, Falconer <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, makes sense. However... wouldn't it be more logical for Firebug > to read the source of the document then, instead of what Firefox is > showing it? (I can understand that this may be somewhat more complex). > > On Jun 6, 12:26 pm, alfonsoml <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's Firefox the one that reports your content that way. > > For example load one of your pages (without Firebug enabled) and run > > this in the location bar: > > javascript:alert(document.body.innerHTML) > > > You'll see that all that "clutter" is already there, so Firebug will > > have a hard time telling apart what's due to Firefox and what's your > > original code. > > > On 6 jun, 18:55, Falconer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Before continuing, I would like to say thanks to the creators of > > > FireBug. It's a fantastic tool and I do not ever want to be without it > > > anymore. > > > > There is one thing that is bugging me more and more though, and that > > > is the crappy code that shows up in firebug that is not part of my > > > original code. I'm talking about the "moz" stuff and numerous > > > 'transparent' insertions whenever I set a background in CSS and a ton > > > of other things. > > > > It's just clutter and does nothing to help me. It would be great if > > > this could be left out and Firebug just takes the code as if you are > > > doing a view-source. If (I can't see why) this is useful to some > > > people, I suggest adding a tickbox somewhere that lets the user chose. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
