- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:55:52 -0400
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Hi, David- L. David Baron wrote (on 3/16/09 9:39 PM): > 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. Fair enough. I think Jonas' proposal might ameliorate this: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Mar/0372.html Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
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