view-source: URL scheme has partial support Browser Compatibility Check

Description

The view-source: URL scheme is not supported by some browsers.

Help

Although browsers display view-source: URLs pasted into the address bar, they don’t work in links due to security issues.

Applicable standards

• Edge
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Opera
• Safari
• iPhone/iPad

Change history

• 5.10 Oct 2015 Now fires for Edge.
• 4.2 Dec 2010 Now fires for iOS and Safari.
• 2.0 Dec 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: BugViewSourceProtocol