[aklug] Re: Good spots for Windows help?

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Shane R. Spencer wrote:

> Would w3m expose them?

I have been shamed -- caught using GUI tools. A quick wget & grep don't
show the answers to be present as they are in firefox's source viewer. They
must be assembling the content with multiple HTTP requests.

<Grumble> I just realized an easier way, because I'm only partially brain
dead right now. If you run NoScript in firefox and all javascript is
disabled for the site you can just scroll down -- all the answers are there.
Don't know when that started happening, or if it's version specific to the
add-on or firefox.

Old habits die hard. Once I see who it is I never even bothered to scroll
down. :-P

I figured this crap out a couple of years (?) ago when I saw that google was
returning excerpts of answers I couldn't see on the actual page. Google had
a policy that if you served up content to their spider that was tailored for
them specifically they'd ban you, so I figured the site was just using HTML
rendering tricks to hide the content. View the source, an viola!

Of course, now I have to wonder how long I've been sifting through freaking
HTML tags when just disabling JavaScript would have done it...

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Received on Wed Feb 17 13:17:33 2010