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Post #1308533

2026-02-19 14:13 UTC

@blinry Not sure if I'm thinking too complicated here, but doesn't it get ever more complicated what exactly to show there? If I'm currently looking at a web app that shows some data retrieved from a server-side backend in a browser whose UI is written in (say) Python calling one of the dominant rendering engines and one of the dominant Javascript engines, which of the sources do I show on “View Source”? It could be anything from the operating system kernel via the CPython or the Javascript runtime to the web app or its server-side counter-part that could be considered most interesting and answering the question: “Oh, I wonder how this works.”

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  • @blinry@chaos.social 2026-02-19 14:17

    @HeptaSean Yeah, that doesn't really seem possible to figure out. For non-web applications, maybe the button could show you the tree of processes that are involved in your "current application", and allow you to pick? For expert users, I guess they could provide the name of the desired component directly.

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