On the desktop, I like having the option to see what a page just looked like, without reloading any data.
If I hit the back button, it's usually because something on the previous page caught my attention and I want to find it again. If I want to reload a page, I'll refresh or click on the site logo (in the case of getting to the root of the site).
I've never understood why View Source would do anything but show me the source of the page I'm looking at - not the source of the page as it is "now," which could be seconds, minutes or hours later. If I'm looking at a page, the browser has or could have a copy of the original stream sent from the server, why not just display that?
What browser(s) are you using that have such behaviour? Is this a new "feature" in the very latest versions? I don't think I've ever seen View Source make another request on Chrome, Firefox, IE, or Opera.
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On the desktop, I like having the option to see what a page just looked like, without reloading any data.
If I hit the back button, it's usually because something on the previous page caught my attention and I want to find it again. If I want to reload a page, I'll refresh or click on the site logo (in the case of getting to the root of the site).
I hate when I go back and things change. I went back for a reason!
But I'm also of the school that wants View Source to view the source that was just downloaded, not re-download a new copy of the source.
I've never understood why View Source would do anything but show me the source of the page I'm looking at - not the source of the page as it is "now," which could be seconds, minutes or hours later. If I'm looking at a page, the browser has or could have a copy of the original stream sent from the server, why not just display that?
What browser(s) are you using that have such behaviour? Is this a new "feature" in the very latest versions? I don't think I've ever seen View Source make another request on Chrome, Firefox, IE, or Opera.
Chrome does.
"Yes, when you "view source", you're really opening a new tab that opens the page again and displays the source rather than renders the page."
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4650#c...
Agreed.
I'm even irked when I go back and the ads change.
I want my history to be like my personal slice of Archive.org.