I miss your smell
Google Chrome View Source
IMHO view source from Google Chrome acts really odd.
When you click view source a new tab opens and the page is loaded all over again.
Maybe there is a very valid reason for this. But I cant find one. To me this can even be problem.
Examples:
- If you pass values via POST you cant get the results as Chrome does not re-POST it just issues a new request using GET and a new session. (I found a couple “Notice: Undefined variable” on some of my code, but this was my problem as I wasnt doing proper verifications) But anyway you never get the POST values and see the source for your page.
- If you have a counter or random dinamic content you will never get to see exactly what you get on the rendered html you have on the initial tab.
A work around is to use “inspect element” but its not the same. Its great for some things but its not the same.
If someone finds a valid reason for this “view source” behaviour I would love to know.
I just order two tickets to http://www.ux-lx.com/
I am really happy that this kind of events happen in Portugal as it gives us (Portuguese developers) a chance to learn and share experiences and knowledge.
UPDATE: minutes after I emailed about this I received a friendly response and the issue bellow was solved. Great job.
I am not one to normally nag and complain about stuff, but for a user experience professionals conference this menu issue made me laugh:
Anyway, and as I started complaining having http://www.ux-lx.com/index.html and http://www.ux-lx.com/ both working is not a very good thing for SEO.
P.S. – Sorry about this guys at http://www.ideias-imagens.com/ but just couldnt resist.