- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:39:43 -0500
- To: www-svg@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
On Monday 2009-03-16 20:31 -0400, Doug Schepers wrote: > T.V Raman wrote (on 3/16/09 12:58 PM): >> And this is why in gneral, it would be a good idea for >> show-source to perhaps show a cleaned-up serialization, rather >> than the original tag-soup that was authored. > > I think everyone is on board with this idea, not just for SVG and > MathML, but even for HTML... if someone out there has a good rationale > against it, I'd be curious to know what that is. Showing cleaned up source breaks the idea of doing view-source to figure out why a page is misbehaving, which is important when diagnosing browser bugs or diagnosing cases where a page depends on browser-specific behavior. Showing the original source rather than the cleaned-up source in such cases also gives you a better chance to figure out what the author was intending to do, which is important to understand if you're going to email them advice about how to fix their page. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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