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> Anyone can look at a web page and learn how it works. Not so true anymore. It's true that HTML/CSS are easy to inspect on a browser, but the meat of most web
by Sirenos 11y ago
> Anyone can look at a web page and learn how it works.
Not so true anymore. It's true that HTML/CSS are easy to inspect on a browser, but the meat of most websites today (JavaScript) is heavily minified to the point that you'd be hard-pressed to call it plain text.
- kijin 11y agoTrue, but minified scripts are often accompanied by sourcemaps. Technically sourcemaps don't need to be public, but they often are because they make debugging easier for in-house developers. So even if not all websites are in debug mode, there are incentives to make it easy to get them into debug mode.