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andreasvc on Feb 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Redesigned Python.org

That's not how web frameworks work. There is code on the server side which _generates_ the HTML, CSS and sometimes Javascript as well. So viewing the source in your browser can give you some clues, but this doesn't reveal what is going on on the server.

lutusp on Feb 20, 2014 [–]

Yes, true, but one can derive some ideas about the origin of the page by scanning the source -- certainly more easily than by viewing the end result.

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