Comments on: Open Notepad - Allow or Deny http://browserden.co.uk/blog/2007/04/01/open-notepad-allow-or-deny/ Browser news, reviews and opinions Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:52:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Mitchel Tyrell http://browserden.co.uk/blog/2007/04/01/open-notepad-allow-or-deny/#comment-13670 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:11:20 +0000 http://browserden.co.uk/blog/2007/04/01/open-notepad-allow-or-deny/#comment-13670 "Of course the source should be displayed by some mechanism in the IE application itself. My guess is that that feature got cut." I'd say that is it more likely that every user doesn't need that feature, and those you do know where to find it. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en “Of course the source should be displayed by some mechanism in the IE application itself. My guess is that that feature got cut.”

I’d say that is it more likely that every user doesn’t need that feature, and those you do know where to find it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en

]]> by: Hoopskier http://browserden.co.uk/blog/2007/04/01/open-notepad-allow-or-deny/#comment-13654 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:02:36 +0000 http://browserden.co.uk/blog/2007/04/01/open-notepad-allow-or-deny/#comment-13654 "(shouldn’t the menu item really be ‘Edit Source’)" If it allowed you to actually edit the source, then yes. Unless you're viewing a webpage on your local computer, any changes you make to the source in Notepad have no effect on the page, so I'd say View Source is an appropriate name. Of course the source should be displayed by some mechanism in the IE application itself. My guess is that that feature got cut. So in keeping with the "secure by default" mantra, they added a prompt before Notepad opens. If it annoys someone enough, they can simply check the box to never see the prompt for Notepad again. “(shouldn’t the menu item really be ‘Edit Source’)”

If it allowed you to actually edit the source, then yes. Unless you’re viewing a webpage on your local computer, any changes you make to the source in Notepad have no effect on the page, so I’d say View Source is an appropriate name.

Of course the source should be displayed by some mechanism in the IE application itself. My guess is that that feature got cut. So in keeping with the “secure by default” mantra, they added a prompt before Notepad opens. If it annoys someone enough, they can simply check the box to never see the prompt for Notepad again.

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