Stuart Langridge has a nice post up discussing the design of web browsers. Should you have the option to "View Source" or not? In my job at work, I'm stuck viewing raw code from an old Sperry Univac or its IBM replacements so I could only wish there was a shiny front-end. We have a single front-end made beyond the tn3270 terminal session and it is definitely not shiny. I look at raw source quite a bit at my job and have to tell people what it means. Until we get the dream of an Enterprise Case Management System fulfilled, we have just over 10,000 human beings trained to be the metaphorical glue holding together some 15 different ancient computer systems that don't play nice together yet end up allowing the humans to give coherent responses when people call in with questions. That is part of why I make "obscene money" for what seems like being no more than a simple telephone operator. Handling ancient COBOL-rooted commands in a mainframe system, reading mainframe responses that can be byzantine at best, integrating that with output from several other systems that don't talk to each other, summarizing it all, and speaking coherently to a generally angry person on the phone is still a tremendous feat.

Much of my life defaults to "View Source" and it drives me batty.