IE dev tools should have the option to see the generated source On Sunday, 20 September 2015, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks, back in the mid 1990s as a challenge I wrote a web page with some > raw JavaScript in it to generate a large table of random but vaguely > realistic looking email addresses (using letter distribution frequencies). > It was folklore back then that pages like this would "poison" spam address > harvesters. > > Almost 20 years later I'm still getting daily 404 requests for that > ancient page, so I found a copy, modernised it a bit and it still works. > BUT ... in IE's View Source you do not see any of the html emitted by the > script. Is by design? Does it mean that the spam harvesters would never > drink their poison? > > Technically, I'm surprised that the browser is ignorant of script changes > to the DOM. Can anyone explain the behaviour? > > *Greg* >