- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:07:38 +0100
- To: public-webarch-comments@w3.org
""""It is common for programmers working with the Web to write code that generates and parses these messages directly. It is less common, but not unusual, for end users to have direct exposure to these messages. This leads to the well-known "view source" effect, whereby users gain expertise in the workings of the systems by direct exposure to the underlying protocols.""" "View source" presumably gives you direct exposure to the underlying syntax of the messages, not to the protocols. For example, I can view the source of the *sequencing*. I can sniff the protocol to get exposure to the activity of the protocol, but that's a different, and more difficult, thing. However, it is useful, as those who've used telnet to debug HTTP interactions, for example, know. Cheers, Bijan Parsia.
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