Firefox view ~source -was- Re: [wp-testers] Re: 2.1 Adding extra <p> tag - bug ?

ryan fitzer ryanfitzer at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 03:18:31 GMT 2007


>
> Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>
I've noticed when I do "view selection source" it'll show rendered stuff
> that has been modified, where "view source" is usually just the content
> of the page.


I've found this to be true as well. FireFox will also display invalid markup
(missing end tags, attributes without the proper quoting) in red. But I have
never seen anything cleaned up.

Ryan


On 1/5/07, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
>
> Lloyd Budd wrote:
> >> As an FYI... Firefox's "view source" isn't a very good thing to rely
> >> on.  I've noticed that it cleans up the source, so it's not a great
> >> indicator of what HTML is being served by your web server.
> >
> > This is very interesting! Can you elaborate on how the source is cleaned
> > up?
>
> I've noticed when I do "view selection source" it'll show rendered stuff
> that has been modified, where "view source" is usually just the content
> of the page.
>
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