OT: IE7 won't show source code !!?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Enrique Arredondo (Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:58:40 -0800 (PST)):

> Why in the world M$ removed the option to view the source code from
> IE ?

They didn't -- see below.

> I looked at their website and here is the notes about it:
>
> View Source--The view-source protocol no longer works in Internet
> Explorer 7
>
> Dump IE7 get firefox 2.0!

I don't have IE7 on any system, and I only use IE6 on those websites
that I need to access and only work with IE.

However...

Reread the statement:

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740486.aspx

    "The view-source protocol no longer works in Internet Explorer 7."

Not that "view/source" no longer works, but rather the "view-source
protocol".  What the heck is the "view-source protocol"?  It's just
like the "http protocol" or the "ftp protocol", in that it goes before
the colon of the URL, as in:

    view-source:http://www.fptech.com

In pre-SP2 versions of IE6, this would open a window with the source
of the specified website, just as the "view/source" menu choice would
do with a page that was already loaded.

See also <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904678>.

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