Justin is dead on. The key point here is that HTML is just a language for describing a document. Once the browser reads it, it’s gone. Open tags, close tags, and formatting are all taken care of by the parser and then go away. Any tool that shows you HTML is generating it based on … Read more
Updated note: this has been fixed in Chrome 49. Very interesting question! Let’s dig in. The root cause The root of the difference is in how Node.js evaluates these statements vs. how the Chrome development tools do. What Node.js does Node.js uses the repl module for this. From the Node.js REPL source code: self.eval( ‘(‘ … Read more
We fought a similar problem where Chrome was canceling requests to load things within frames or iframes, but only intermittently and it seemed dependent on the computer and/or the speed of the internet connection. This information is a few months out of date, but I built Chromium from scratch, dug through the source to find … Read more