subject:"\[OT\] JavaScript and the DOM"

Re: [OT] JavaScript and the DOM

2015-09-20 Thread Jano Petras

Hi Greg, When a Web Crawler retrieves the page, it is mostly relying on response from web server - parses html returned, and extracts stuff out. It is very rare that these tools will actually try to run javascript or any dynamic content that may be present in the returned html to be able to see

Re: [OT] JavaScript and the DOM

2015-09-19 Thread Bec C

IE dev tools should have the option to see the generated source On Sunday, 20 September 2015, Greg Keogh 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

[OT] JavaScript and the DOM

2015-09-19 Thread Greg Keogh

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