Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

Tuesday's post about Google's Chrome browser noted the up-front absence of almost everything we've become used to in browsers (File, Edit, History, Favourites and Tools stuff). Also missing is the indispensable "View Source" function. Without it, how many of us would have mastered HTML? Wasn't "View Source" one of the sources, as it were, of open source, and the beginning of the end of copyright? After all, by making the ideas of others more accessible than any preceding innovation, "View Source" enabled millions to abscond with coding, layout, scripts and the rest of it. In return, we got an unprecedented eruption of creativity.

Anyway, if you'd like to look at this site's source code in Chrome, here's what you need to type in the Omnibox: "view-source:http://www.eamonn.com". Quirky, I know, but there you are.

And here's something cool about Chrome: every tab is "sandboxed," meaning your computer won't be affected by whatever happens in the tabs. Pop-ups, for example, are contained in the tabs they originate in and are presented as links at the bottom of the page. You can look at 'em, but they won't pop up without your permission.