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By mswatcher
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Published: Dec 03 2009 / 21:58

The End of Days for “View Source”?
“View Source is your friend”, we’ve learned countless times as web developers. It’s something special about web development that we can seamlessly lift the covers on anything we see and find out how the sausage is made. And it gets even better with great tools to interrogate the system in real-time.
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b.m replied ago:

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A not so convincing argument that javascript compression and better DOM tools will make the source viewing obsolete.

I don't like it since he forgets to mention that
a. the DOM is actually built from an interpretation of the source (they are not 100% equivalent), and
b. focuses on JS compression way too much in delivering his argument.

There are plenty of times during development and not only when I am seeing myself forced to see the actual generated source, and the js compression is only used in the deployed versions of the application, not during development.

Thus "view source" is here to stay. (unless some binary RIA becomes over the night the defacto standard - which I doubt)

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