- From: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:32:06 -0400
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Le 16 mars 2009 à 21:39, L. David Baron a écrit : > 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. There was a time that doctors were thinking that patients had to feel the pain to be able to identify what was wrong and cure them. This time has mostly disappeared. I understand the benefits of an "unaltered" source. (Still we could say that some errors come from scripts on the server side and we can't see the original source in browsers.) BUT you could perfectly propose it as an option such as "view canonical source" in addition to "view raw source". Or having the "view raw source" only for tech savy people (when developer mode is activated.) But all that is mostly UI issues. The real issue is how to make it "canonical". There are many options and we do not have yet decided of the right options. Things like <center>foo</center> Does it become <span style="text-align:center;">foo</span> or foo or <span class="canon001">foo</span> (with external stylesheet) -- Karl Dubost Montréal, QC, Canada
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