View What’s Behind a Website With Mouse X-Ray Goggles

Mozilla used to provide an excellent little tool called X-Ray Goggles that let you view and customize the code behind any website. They shut it down a couple of years ago and because then Ive been advising that individuals simply
usage Chromes examine tool to view the code behind a webpage. In reality, I even included that in
my weekly newsletter this week. This week I discovered that
Mouse.org provides its own
X-Ray Goggles tool for seeing and modifying the code behind a page..

As I discussed in the video, you could use X-Ray Goggles to alter a post on the internet to make it a satire story. Then print the page and provide it to your students to try to recognize the satire elements of the story.

Mouse.orgs X-Ray Goggles tool lets you see the code behind any websites and change that code to show anything that you want in place of the initial text and images. After you have made the modifications you can publish a local copy of the web page. In this short video I offer a demonstration of how Mouse.orgs X-Ray Goggles tool works..

Applications for Education.
Mouse.orgs X-Ray Goggles supplies an excellent way for students to see how the code of a webpage works.

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