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Does anyone else miss the days when you could right-click on any page and see what magical incantations drive what you see? I feel like modern Javascript pipelines and the drive for loading speed is endangering what used to be how we all learned Web technologies.

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Everyone loves pagespeed and github far more fun than view source!

Are you suggesting you dont want things minified?

I'm not suggesting the solution to this problem is to abandon compression. I'm suggesting that we make "View Source" do what it says on the tin. Perhaps a "readable-src" attribute on the <script> tag.

there is sourcemap.

That's what source maps are for. I only enable them for development, though.

OP has a point.. Minification devolves to obfuscation for the most part once zlib compression enters the picture.

The next version of Userify.com is not going to be minified, just gzipped.

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